Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-12-29
General Grants Ancestry.

We are daily receiving additions to our
knowledge of General Grant, who in
Paris is just as great lion Is he was 10
London. 1t 10 now discovered that not
only is he Of the Clan Grant, but that he
presents remarkable resemblance tn one
Of the greatest of Judges, Sir William
Grant, q master Of the Rolls, whose fame
was 20 great that Lord Brougham in
cluded the great master Of judicial clio
quence in his last work, the "Sketches
of British Statesmen" Sir William Grant
was born in Morayshire, in 1855, and
only died in 1889. Left an orphan, he
was brought up by an uncle, London
merchant, and after being educated at
Elgin, "the chief town of the Clan Grant"
and at Leyden, he entered Lincoln's Inn
and was called to the bar. He emigrated
to Canada. where he was Attorney Gen.
eral, but returned to London, and, having
attracted the notice of Mr.. Pitt, he was
returned for Shaftesbury. He distin-
guished himself in Parliament, and by an
able argument in a Scotch appeal he
gained the friendship of Lord Thurlow.
He passed rapidly into practice and into
legal promotion, and in 1901, being So
licitor- General, he was appointed Master
of the Rolls, the greatest of Masters, and
for seventeen years was regarded as 81
perfect model of Judicial excellence" He
had the art of brevity, an art now forgot
ten in the practice of the law, and could
dispose of an entire argument in paren-
thesis. On his retirement he was re-
Quested to sit for his portrait, which is
now hung up iu the court he SO long
adored. If the resemblance of General
Grant to his great namesake should have
the effect of drawing attention to the jI-
dicial merits of Sir William Grant, who
never wasted q word, We shall be CRATE
full. Perhaps General Grant has derived
his own love Of brevity from the most
distinguished memkes Of his clan. There
is resenblsnce b<tseen die Grant pse-
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