Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant

by Joseph Foster

Duff, Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant, 1s. James Grant, of Eden, co. Aberdeen, arm. Balliol Coll., matric. 17 March, 1847, aged 18; B.A. 1850, M.A. 1853, bar.-at-law, Inner Temple, 17 Nov., 1854, governor of Madras 1881-6, under-secretary of state for India 1868-74, and for Colonies 1880-1, M.P. Elgin Burghs 1857-81, lord rector of Aberdeen University 1866-73. See Foster's Men at the Bar.