James Shaw Grant FRSE CBE (22 May 1910 – 28 July 1999) was a writer and journalist from the Isle of Lewis.
[1] He was strongly associated with the Highlands and Islands Development Board.
[3] In 1956 he broadcast A Gaelic capital on BBC Scotland, an audio tour of Stornoway.
He wrote a number of books about crofting communities, such as the comic novel The Enchanted Island.
His proposers were Fraser Noble, Lord Cameron, Anthony Elliot Ritchie, Neill Campbell, Thomas L Johnston and Sir Kenneth Alexander.