Sir James Alexander Grant, KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 (August 11, 1831 – February 5, 1920) was an Ontario

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 physician and political figure. He represented Russell

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 as a Conservative Party of Canada

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 member from 1867 to 1874; he also represented the City of Ottawa

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 in the federal parliament from 1893 to 1896.

He was born in Inverness

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, Scotland

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, in 1829, the son of James Grant and Jane Ord, and came to Canada with his parents in 1830. He studied at the University of Queen's College

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 and then studied medicine at McGill College

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, becoming an M.D.

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 in 1854. In 1856, he married Maria, the daughter of Edward Malloch

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. Grant served as president of the College of Surgeons of Ontario and was also president of the Mechanics' Institute and Athenaeum of Ottawa

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. He published a number of articles in medical journals in England

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 and Canada. Grant served as physician to several Governors General

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 from 1867 to 1905. He was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians

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 and a member of the Geological Society of England. He was named a KCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 in 1887. He died in Ottawa

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at the age of 88.