Andrew Grant

Andrew Grant (1757–1836) was a senior Scottish minister in the 19th century who became Chaplain in Ordinary to King George III, George IV and William IV in Scotland and Dean of the Chapel Royal. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1808. Life He was born at Limepotts near Scone, Perthshire the son of Margaret Henderson and her husband, David Grant. He was baptised on 4 June 1757. He studied at the University of St Andrews and licensed to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery of Perth in July 1781. He then went to Edinburgh to assist the elderly Rev George Wishart in the Tron Kirk. He left Edinburgh in September 1784 when he was ordained as minister of Portmoak on the north shore of Loch Leven.