James Granger

English biographer · Writers · Lived 1723 to 1776 · aged 53

James Granger (1723-1776) was an English clergyman, biographer, and print collector. He is now known as the author of the Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution (1769). Granger was an early advocate of animal rights.

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Title page of James Granger's Biographical History of England, 5th ed. (1824), extra-illustrated by William Thomas Beckford in 31 vols., (c. 1824-44). Special Collections, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

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