Patrick Grant (rosarian)

As a dairy farmer on virgin land at Nambucca River, Macksville on the north coast of New South Wales he developed a famous herd of Ayreshires.

[1][2] He thus appears as a successful small landholder, quite different from the members of the landed elite like Alister Clark and Olive Fitzhardinge who were the best known rose breeders of the time.

[5] He also had a Sydney North Shore address at 26 Clanwilliam Street, Chatswood from 1927 at least,[6] perhaps with the third of an acre behind the house now devoted to tennis courts.

The readers' survey by the Melbourne Argus for 1937 showed Grant's 'Golden Dawn' to be in the most popular ten garden roses.

'Midnight Sun'[17] (1921), a red–black hybrid tea, can be seen in the Nieuwesteeg Heritage Rose Garden at Bacchus Marsh in Victoria.