He matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, on 21 October 1795, and took his degree of BA in 1799, and MA in 1805.
[4] Ordained in the Church of England by Henry Majendie, Grant became curate to Edward Owen.
He was in succession at Ormskirk, Lancashire, Frodsham and Latchford in Cheshire, where he succeeded James Glazebrook as perpetual curate at the Chapel of Ease in 1803.
[1][4] In 1809 Grant moved to London, as curate of Hornsey, and then of and St Pancras.
Through the interest of Majendie, he was presented to the living of Binbrooke St. Mary, Lincolnshire, in 1818, and to the incumbency of Kentish Town, London, in 1822, where he remained till his death on 4 December 1844.