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John Webster Grant was born at Truro, Nova Scotia on June 27th, 1919. He attended Dalhousie, Princeton and Oxford universities (Rhodes scholar 1941), graduated in theology from Pine Hill Divinity Hall, Halifax, and served as a wartime chaplain in the RCN. He taught church history at Union College, Vancouver, 1949-59, except for one year as a visiting professor in India. In 1959 he joined Ryerson Press and a year later became its editor in chief. From 1963 until retirement in 1984 he was professor of church history at Emmanuel College, Toronto.
Besides numerous scholarly articles, he has written more than a dozen books on church history, particularly Canadian. He has been active in several academic and religious organizations, including the United Church's commission on union with the Anglicans, where he was chairman of the executive committee 1967-71. He was the recipient of several honorary degrees and numerous other awards. He passed away in 2006.

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William Lawson Grant, historian and educator, was born at Halifax, N.S., in 1872, the son of Rev. George Munro Grant. He was educated at Queen's University, Kingston and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1898). He taught at Upper Canada College and St. Andrew's College, Toronto, 1898-1904. From 1904 to 1910 he was Beit Lecturer in colonial history at Oxford and from 1910 to 1915 taught at Queen's. In 1917, he became headmaster of Upper Canada College, remaining in the position until his death in 1935. During his career he wrote or edited several historical publications, including his father's biography. He was elected F.R.S.C in 1911. In 1911 Grant married Maude Parkin.

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