James Augustus Grant, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames Augustus Grant
Scottish explorer
Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1827
Place of Birth: Nairn, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 11-Feb-1892
Profession: explorer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About James Augustus Grant
- Lieutenant-Colonel James Augustus Grant (11 April 1827 – 11 February 1892) was a Scottish explorer of eastern equatorial Africa.
- He made contributions to the journals of various learned societies, the most notable being the "Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition" in vol.
- xxix of the Transactions of the Linnean Society.
- He married in 1865 and settled down at Nairn, where he died in 1892.
- He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral.
- Grant's gazelle, one of the largest and handsomest of that family in Africa, was named in his honor.
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