GRANT, ABRAHAM: African Methodist Episcopal bishop; b. at Lake City, Fla., Aug. 25, 1848. He was born a elave, and after the close of the Civil War acquired au education in missionary and nightschools. He joined the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1868 and for five years was a class leader and steward. He was licensed to preach in 1873 and became an elder three years later, and in 1888 he was elected bishop.

GRANT, ASAHEL: American physician and missionary; b. at Marshall, Allegany Countyipr N. Y., Aug. 17, 1807; d'. at Mosul, Asiatic Turkey, . 24, 1844. He studied medicine at Pittsfield, Mass., and was practising his profession at Utica, N. Y., when, in 1834, he first became interested in missions. In 1835 he went to Urumiah as a missionary of the American Board. He gained the confidence of the Persian officials, and of the Nestorian priests and bishops, founded schools and did much to allevi ate the sufferings of the Nestoriane in the war with the Kurds. After the massacres of 1843 he nettled at Mosul. He published The Ne&onans, or the Loaf Trtbea (London and Boston, 1841).

Bibliography: A. C. Lathrop, Memoir of Asahel Grant, New York, 1844; T. Lawrie, Dr. Grant and the Mountain Neatoriana, Boston, 1858.

GRANT, SIR ROBERT: Governor of Bengal, India; b. in Bengal in 1779; d. at Dalpoorie, Western India, July 9, 1838. He wan educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge (B.A., 1801; M.A., 1804), and wan admitted to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 180?. Prior to his appointment to the governorehip of Bengal in 1834 he wan a member of the House of Commons for fifteen years, in which body he championed the movement for repealing the civil disabilities of the Jews. He published three works dealing with Indian affairs and a number of hymns. Twelve of these, most of which were originally contributed to the Christian Observer, were collected by his brother Charles, Lord Glenelg, under the title Sacred Poems (London, 1839). Two of them, "When gathering clouds around I

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view," and "Savior, when in duet to thee," rank with the beat of modern hymns.

Bibliography: DNB, soil . 402: 8. W. Duffield, English Hymns, p. 27 et passim, New York, 1888; Julian, HymrwloQy. pp. 449-4b0.

GRAPHEUS (De Schryver, Scribonius), CORNELIUS: Humanist; b. at Aalet (Aloat, 15 m. w.n.w.. of Brussels), in Flanders, 1482; d. at Antwerp, Dec. 19, 1558. While town clerk of Antwerp, he published the two works of Johann von Goch, Epistttla apologetics contra Dominicanum quendam and De libertste Christians, accompanying them with caustic prefaces dated respectively Aug. 23, 1520, and Mar. 29, 1521. In both prefaces he complains of the clergy's forgetfulness of duty, and of the suppression of the truth of the Gospel. He was soon arrested by the Inquisition, and early in Feb., 1522, he was taken to Brussels, being obliged to make a formal recantation both there and at Antwerp. He was not reinstated in office, however, until 1540.

Otto Clemen.

Bibliography: A. J. van der Aa, Biographiach w oorden boek der Nederlanden, Haarlem, 1852 sqq.; C. Ullmann, Reformers before the Reformation, i. 18, 138-142, 397, 402-418, Edinburgh, 1877; O. Clemen, Johann Pupper von Loch, 1.eipsic, 1898; P. Kalkoff, Die Antdnpe der Gepen reformation in den NiederTanden, i. 57; ii. 70-71, Halle, 1903; sources may be found in P. Fredericq, Corpus documsntorum inqu%aiEionia Airreticce pravitatis Neederiandicce,

iii., nos. 60, 84, 74, 77. 83, 85, 90, 107, 108, 129, The Hague, 1889 sqq.