GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER, 8TH BART. (1826-1884), British scholar and educationalist, was born in New York on Sept. 13, 1826. After a childhood spent in the West Indies, he was educated at Harrow and Oxford. He entered Oxford as scholar of Balliol, and subsequently held a fellowship at Oriel from to 186o. He made a special study of the Aristotelian philosophy, and in 1857 published an edition of the Ethics which became a standard text-book at Oxford. He spent nine years in India, filling various important educational positions in Bombay. From 1868 until his death (which occurred in Edinburgh on Nov. 3o, 1884) he was principal of Edinburgh University. The institution of the medical school in the University was almost solely due to his initiative.