448 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Mr. Grant was called away from Edinburgh to a charge, we believe, in
‘Westmoreland. From that period he constantly resided in England, where he
died in December 1837, at an advanced age. In the obituary of the Church of
England Magazine he is described as “ the Rev. J. F. Grant, Rector of Wrabness,
Essex, and Morston, Sussex.”
Mr. Grant married, in 1795, Miss Anne Oughterson, youngest daughter of
the Rev. Arthur Oughterson, minister of Wester Kilbride. She was a beautiful
woman ; and the union, though not approved of by his friends, is understood to
have been one of peculiar happiness to both parties. They had several children,
some of whom still survive. While in Edinburgh hlr. Grant resided in
Broughton Street.
No. CCCXXII.
THE CRAFT IN DANGER.
THIS Print affords a partial view of the Old College of Edinburgh and its
entrance. The skeleton of the elephant was prepared by Sir George Ballingall
while serving as assistant-surgeon with the second battalion of the Royals in
India ; was subsequently presented by him to his old master, Dr. Barclay ; and
ultimately bequeathed by the Doctor, along with the rest of his collection, to
the Royal College of Surgeons, in whose valuable Museum it forms a conspicuous
object.
The Plate refers to the proposed institution of a Professorship of Comparative
Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh, in 1817, for which DR. BARCLAY
was at the time considered to be an eligible candidate. He is represented as
riding in at the College gate on the skeleton of the elephant, supported by the
late DR. GREGORYa, nd welcomed by his friend, the late RVBERTJ OHNSTON,
Esq., who were supposed to be favourable to the proposed Professorship, and to
Dr. Barclay’s pretensions to the Chair. He is opposed by DR. HOPE, who fixes
his anchor in the strontian, and resists the entrance of the elephant by means
of the cable passed round his forelegs. He is also opposed with characteristic
weapons, by DR. MONROa nd PROFESSJOARM ESOoNn, whose respective departments
the intended Professorship was supposed to be an encroachment.
JOHN BARCLAY, M.D., long known as an eminent lecturer on anatomy
in this city, was the son of a respectable farmer in Perthshire, and nephew of
John Barclay, the Berean. He was born at Cairn, near Drummaquhance, in
that county, about the year 1760. After acquiring the rudiments of education
at the parish school of Muthill, he studied with a view to the ministry at the
qniversity of St. Andrews, and was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of
