George Monro Grant

George Monro Grant, CMG was a Canadian church minister, writer, and political activist. He served as principal of Queens College, Kingston, Ontario foryears, from 1877 until 1902.

Grant was born in Stellarton, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. He was educated at the Pictou Academy and the antiburgher seminary in West River in Nova Scotia, and, from 1853 to 1860, in Scotland at the University of Glasgow, where he had a brilliant academic career. Having entered the ministry of the Church of Scotland in 1861, he returned to serve in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, before being called to the St Matthews congregation in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he was minister from 1863 to 1877.

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