A well liked Fortean.
I just don’t know much about him. Indeed, I know so little that I am tempted to not write him up at all. But he was well thought-of by Thayer and Eric Frank Russell, among others, and a frequent contributor, so it’s hard to skip him entirely. Also, he wrote several long letters to Russell that our preserved in his papers at the University of Liverpool, which give some insight into his Forteanism, if not much else.
The only hard biographical facts about Alexander Grant that I can give is that he was Scottish, and iced in Glasgow. More speculatively, he seems to have been economically hard off in the early 1950s, but presented a good face—if sometimes overly solicitous. He was skeptical of those in power. He seems to have been lonely, and may have been relatively old at the time he joined the Society. He did have nice penmanship.
I just don’t know much about him. Indeed, I know so little that I am tempted to not write him up at all. But he was well thought-of by Thayer and Eric Frank Russell, among others, and a frequent contributor, so it’s hard to skip him entirely. Also, he wrote several long letters to Russell that our preserved in his papers at the University of Liverpool, which give some insight into his Forteanism, if not much else.
The only hard biographical facts about Alexander Grant that I can give is that he was Scottish, and iced in Glasgow. More speculatively, he seems to have been economically hard off in the early 1950s, but presented a good face—if sometimes overly solicitous. He was skeptical of those in power. He seems to have been lonely, and may have been relatively old at the time he joined the Society. He did have nice penmanship.