John Richard Grant

Baptised at St. James, Louth, 1 August 1846, son of the third Thomas Grant, and drowned in South America 3 May 1869. Living with his family at Louth in 1851 and in Jersey in 1861.

GRANT. – May 3, drowned, while crossing the river Mariel, Banda Oriental, S. America, John Richard Grant, eldest son of the late Thomas Grant, Esq., Louth, Lincolnshire, in his 24th year.aExeter and Plymouth Gazette, Monday 12 July 1869

Married on 7 October 1868 at St. Nicholas’, Sidmouth, Marion Elizabeth Crump. She was born 6 April 1846 at Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, and following her husband’s death lived with her family at Edgbaston (1871) and Lewisham (1881), and then disappears.

GRANT-CRUMP. -On the 7th inst., at St. Nicholas’, Sidmouth (by the Rev. H. Flemming Baxter, Vicar of Bushbury, assisted by the Rev. Thomas Crump, brother of the bride), John Richard, eldest son of the late Thomas Grant, Esq., Louth, Lincolnshire, to Marion Elizabeth, only daughter of Thomas Crump, Esq., late of Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire.bLincolnshire Chronicle, 23 October 1868

Issue one daughter:

  1. Marion Caroline ‘Minna’ Grant. Born 22 December 1869 at Sidmouth in Devon, and listed with her mother in the 1871 and 1881 censuses. Died in Salisbury, Rhodesia, 5 May 1962.
    BIRTHS. GRANT. -Dec. 22, at Upland Cottage, Sidmouth, the residence of her father, Thomas Crump, Esq., Mrs. J. R. Grant, of a daughter.cExeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams – Monday 27 December 1869

    Married 15 March 1888 at Sydenham, London, to Thomas Barrow Dowling. He was born 31 May 1861 at Over Wallop, Hampshire, and died 5 September 1926 at Cape Town, and was organist and Master of the Choristers at St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, from 1888 to 1926.

    Dowling-Grant.-On the 15th inst., at St. Bartholomew’s, Sydenham, by the Rev. Canon Yeatman, Vicar, assisted by the Rev. Hubert Handley, T. Barrow Dowling, second son of W. Dowling, Esq., Basingstoke, Hants, to Caroline Marion, only daughter of the late J. R. Grant, Esq., Louth, Lincolnshire.dReading Mercury, 24 March 1888.
    Dr. THOMAS BARROW DOWLING, at Cape Town, aged sixty-five. A Hampshire man, he was born on May 31, 1861, educated at the High School and Cathedral Grammar School, Salisbury, studied at the R.A.M., was appointed organist at St. Philip’s, Regent Street, and in 1888 went to South Africa to take up the post of organist and choirmaster at St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town. He soon came into prominence, founded the Combined Choral Societies of the Cape in 1891, and did much in the establishment of musical education under the Joint Education Board. From 1894 to 1912 Dr. Dowling conducted the Cape Town Musical Societies’ Orchestra, and was chief organizer and conductor of about eighty choral performances and festivals.eThe Musical Times, Vol. 67, No. 1004 (Oct. 1, 1926), p. 943
    To the glory of God and in memory of Thomas Barrow Dowling, Mus. Doc., ER.A.M. who died September 5 1926, for thirty-eight years organist and choirmaster of this Cathedral. By the vigour of his personality, his power of leadership and his unflagging zeal, he made music a noble accompaniment to worship and did worthy service to the City of Cape Town. Lest a devoted musician, faithful friend and loyal citizen be forgotten, this tablet is placed by those to whom he was well beloved.

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a. ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, Monday 12 July 1869
b. ↑ Lincolnshire Chronicle, 23 October 1868
c. ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams – Monday 27 December 1869
d. ↑ Reading Mercury, 24 March 1888.
e. ↑ The Musical Times, Vol. 67, No. 1004 (Oct. 1, 1926), p. 943