Surname: Grant (née Reid) Forename(s): Maria Nationality: Scottish.
Poet. Born c. 1851. The Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for her poem, published on 30 March 1872, lists her details as Miss
Maria Reid, of 63 Academy St, Inverness (NLS Dep 341/368). Nationality presumed from
the address. 1891 Scotland Census lists her married name as Grant. Date of birth from
1871 Scotland Census. Biographical information: Ancestry. (AC, TNT)