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Grant's last leading role was in Rich Relations (1937). She appeared in three additional films as a dancer uncredited. In the 1940s and 1950s, Grant worked as a dance director in films such as Masquerade in Mexico (1945), Mrs. Mike (1949), and Fancy Pants (1950). [3] Frances Grant died in Lexington, Massachusetts, on February 20, 1982, at the ...
A family member of the Grants of Tullochgorm, and daughter of a colonel in the Seaforth Highlanders, [1] she was sent to London and the care of her grandfather Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, Goldstick-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria, and his daughter Miss Frances Gough Grant – known as 'Aunt Fan' – when her parents were posted to India. [2]
Grant was the fourth son of Francis Grant, Laird of Kilgraston, near Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, and his wife Anne Oliphant of Rossie. Grant was educated at Harrow School and Edinburgh High School. [1] His father, a plantation owner in Jamaica, died in 1818, leaving money to his seven children. [2]
Bakari Grant (born 1987), American football player; Barbara Grant, American businesswoman; Barra Grant (born 1948), American actress; Beatrice Grant (1761–1845), Scottish author
After Mrs. Hammersley's death in 1902, her husband kept the painting until 1923, when financial troubles compelled him to sell the work. At the suggestion of Sargent, it was purchased by Charles Deering (1852–1927), an American whose portrait Sargent had painted in Newport, Rhode Island in 1876, and who collected Sargent's works.
Sir Francis Grant (artist) (1803–1878), Scottish artist; Francis Chapman Grant (1823–1894), merchant-prince in the Gold Coast; Sir Francis James Grant (1863–1953), Scottish Officer of Arms; Francis William Grant (1814–1840), British Member of Parliament for Inverness-shire; Frances Grant (1909–1982), American actress and dancer; Frank ...
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Grant was born in 1878 in Beyin, Western Nzema, into an influential merchant family.He was the son of William Minneaux Grant and Madam Adjua (Dwowa) Biatwi of the Aboradze clan, and the grandson of Francis Chapman Grant, [1] proprietor of the Gold Coast Times and treasurer of the Fanti Confederation.