| Administrative History | R. D. S. Grant was born in 1877 in Stonehaven. In 1895 he won a scholarship in Moray House, Edinburgh. He won the Steele prizes in Latin and Greek also the McLaren bursary in English, Latin and Maths. He graduated from Edinburgh University: he was there from 1894 to 1896. He was a school teacher and had an interest in antiquities, concentrating on the Picts and Celts, and also palaeography. He died around 1960. |
| Description | Typescript papers by Grant on ancient Britannic subjects, undated; Papers relating to research, 1957 and undated; Notes on mediaeval palaeography, undated; Personal ephemera, 1899, 1954; Latin prose exercises, University of Edinburgh, 1894 - 1896; 'Hugo's French Journal' and 'Hugo's Self-Tuition Course' (incomplete), 1901, 1907 - 1908. |