GRIERSON, SIR JAMES MONCRIEFF British soldier, was born at Glasgow on Jan. 27, 1859, and joined the Royal Artillery in 1877. Noted from the outset as an excep tionally keen student of his profession, from 1896 to 190o he was military attache at Berlin. As a colonel he was with Lord Roberts during the advance from Bloemfontein into the Transvaal ; but he was then transferred to China to act as British military repre sentative on the staff of Count Waldersee, commander-in-chief of the Allied forces against the Boxers. In 1904 he was appointed director of military operations. He commanded the i st Division at Aldershot from 1906-10, and was in 1912 put in charge of the Eastern command. On the outbreak of the World War Sir J. Grierson was selected for the command of the II. Army Corps. He proceeded to France, but died suddenly on Aug. 17, 1914. See D. S. Macdiarmid, Life of Sir James Moncrieff Grierson (1923).