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Description: | James Andrew Sandilands Grant (1840 - 1896) was born in Methlick in Aberdeenshire in 1840. He became a graduate of Aberdeen University in 1862 with an MA and in 1864 with an MD. His career fully began when his efforts during an outbreak of Cholera in Alexandria as it spread throughout Egypt were recognised by the Sultan of Turkey, who conferred on him the rank of Chevalier of the order of Medjidieh. He had a brief period back in the North of Scotland acting as the superintendent of the Banff District Lunatic Asylum and assisting Dr Jamieson superintendent of the Royal Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen. Grant finally settled in Cairo undertaking a government medical appointment in connection with railway administration. His efficiency and thorough work earned him his reputation for which the Khedive conferred on him the title of 'Bey'. This military title of 'Bey' corresponds to a Colonel in the British Army. In 1887 he received from Italy a gold medal "for scientific merit and distinguished services rendered to humanity". In addition to this esteemed medical career Grant was a learned Egyptologist collecting throughout his life and participating in a number of significant events in Egyptian Archaeology. Grant was present when Waynmann Dixon unearthed the previously undiscovered channels in the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid. The Grant-Bey collection was donated by his widow in 1897. Mrs E F Morice the grand-daughter of James Grant donated £100 to the Anthropological Museum which went towards the expenses of a world globe for the Museum.
Super collection: Marischal Museum.
Sub-collection: James Grant (Bey) Collection.
Objects: amulets; basketry/ropes; canopic jars; coffins; coins; faience figures; faience vessels; flints; food/plant material; funerary cones; furniture; glass vessels; jewellery; metal figures; metal vessels; animal remains (mummies); human remains (mummies); offering tables; ostraca; papyri; pottery; Ptah-Sokar-Osiris' figures; relief sculpture; scarabs/sealings; shabtis; shabti boxes; cosmetic palettes; stelae (stone); stone figures; stone vessels; textiles/leather; toilet articles; tomb models; tools/weapons; wooden figures; Coins; photographs; prayer book in coptic and Arabic; beads. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUA:CLD78 | Go to resource |
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