Grant, COLONEL JAMES AUGUSTUS, C.B., F.R.S., was a son of the Rev. James Grant of Nairn, where he was born in 1827. Having been educated at the grammar-school and Marischal College, Aberdeen, he was in 1846 appointed to the Indian army. His services at the battle of Gujerat, under Lord Gough, gained him the medal and two clasps, and his further services in India, in the course of which he was wounded, were honoured by the Mutiny medal and clasp for relief of Lucknow. With Captain Speke he explored (1860-63) the sources of the Nile. He also received the medal for services in the Abyssinian Expedition of 1868. Among his publications are A Walk Across Africa; 'Summary of the Speke and Grant Expedition,' in the Jour. Roy. Geog. Soc. (1872); Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition; and Khartoum as I saw It in 1863. A gold medallist of the Royal Geographical Society, he died 10th February 1892.
Grant, COLONEL JAMES AUGUSTUS, C.B., F.R.S.
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