NO3997 : Tombstones in Grant crypt Of the son, an obituary in a UBC newsletter reads:
William Leonard Grant,
BA’36, AM(Harvard), PhD (U of T), November 5,1967, in Vancouver. Dr. Grant was professor of classics at UBC at the time of his death. Before coming to UBC he had
taught at the University of Toronto and in the high schools of Vancouver and
Victoria. Dr. Grant was a former member of the National Council of the
Renaissance Society of America and had published several books on Italian
and Latin literature. He came to Canada from Scotland when he was a young
man, finishing his high school in Victoria before entering UBC. During the Second
World War he was a member of the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve.
He is survived by his wife and son.