Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, playwright, novelist, critic, and Lecturer for the Northern Union of Mechanics’ Institutes. Alternative signature: J. G. Grant. Born in Liverpool. Lived in Durham, Sunderland, from at least the time of his marriage (in Bishop-Wearmouth, Durham) to Sarah Garthwaite on 12 March 1822, and wrote local stories for the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle. Died in Islington, London. Author of Madonna Pia, and Other Poems (1848). Biographical information: Boase 1: 1203; James Gregor Grant (1799-1875), Ancestry. (AC)