Difference between revisions of "Grainger, James"
From AngloScottish
(Created page with "{{Template2 |Dates=1753-1759 |Location=London |Vocation=Physician; poet |Place of Birth=Duns |Marriage=Miss Burt |Issue=Louise Agnes; Eleanor |Source=Oxford Dictionary of Nati...") |
(No difference)
|
Latest revision as of 16:26, 21 January 2014
Dates | 1753-1759 | ||
---|---|---|---|
Location | London | ||
Vocation | Physician; poet | ||
Place of Birth | Duns | ||
Marriage | Miss Burt | ||
Issue | Louise Agnes; Eleanor | ||
Place of birth | Source | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
Educated at Edinburgh. Army surgeon (1745-1748). Established a medical practice in Walbrook (1753). Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of London (1758). Had limited success as a physician, and relied instead upon his poetical writing for income. Left England (1759) for a four-year tour of West Indies, and settled as a physician on St Kitts. Known particularly for his principal poem 'The Sugar Cane' (1764), written on St Kitts.