Basic Biographical Details | Name: | William Hood Grant | | Designation: | | | Born: | 1879 | | Died: | 1957 | | Bio Notes: | William Hood Grant was born in Dundee, Angus in about 1879, the son of William Grant, master butcher, and his wife Jane. He was educated at Dundee High School. He remained in Dundee spending two years at the Dundee School of Art, where he studied architecture and art, and won a National Bronze Medal in 1896.
He emigrated to South Africa in 1901 and worked initially in the office of George Ransome. He later practised on his own account in Cape Town. He worked with fellow Scot Donald MacGillivray, whom he had met in Ransome's office, on the competition design for the Southern Life Assurance Building in Durban and subsequently formed a partnership with MacGillivray. Grant ran the Durban office for the firm but returned about 1908 to Cape Town. When MacGillivray left for Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in the early 1920s, he continued the practice on his own in Cape Town where he was responsible for a number of buildings. The practice later became WH Grant & Partners.
Grant died in 1957. | Private and Business Addresses| The following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes |  | Cape Town, South Africa | Business | Before 1921 | After 1927 | |
Employment and TrainingEmployers| The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this (click on an item to view details): | | | Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | | George Ransome | c. 1901 | | Assistant | |
Employees or Pupils| The following individuals were employed or trained by this (click on an item to view details): | | | Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes | | Robert Ian Stewart | April 1921 | 1926 | Apprentice | | | Robert Ian Stewart | 1927 | Before 1937 | Assistant | |
ReferencesBibliographic References| The following books contain references to this : | | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Freschi, Federigo | 1998 | Form follows facade: the architecture of W H Grant 1920-1932 | | Image & Text: A journal for Design, Number 8. 1998. | | | www.artefacts.co.za | | www.artefacts.co.za | | Website of artefacts, for the recording of South African buildings | Courtesy of Roger Fisher |
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