Granger, James 1723-1776

James Granger (1723 - 1776), biographer, was at Oxford and, entering the Church, became Vicar of Shiplake, Oxon. He published a Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution (1769). He insisted on the importance of collecting engravings of portraits and himself gathered 14,000, and gave a great impulse to the practice of making such collections.
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A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution: consisting of characters disposed in different classes, and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British Heads: intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system, and to a help to the knowledge of portraits: interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons, not to be found in any other biographical work. With a preface, shewing the utility of a collection of engraved portraits to supply the defect, and answer the various purposes, of medals, by the Rev. J. Granger, vicar of Shiplake in Oxfordshire. (Fifth edition, six volumes, London, 1824).
Volume 1
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Volume 2
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Volume 3
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Volume 4
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Volume 5
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Volume 6
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A collection of portraits to illustrate Granger's Biog. hist. of England and Noble's continuation to Granger : forming a supplement to Richardson's copies of rare Granger portraits, Volume 1-2 (1820)
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A biographical history of England, from the revolution to the end of George I's reign; being a continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's work: consisting of characters disposed in different classes; and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads; interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons. The materials being supplied by the manuscripts left by Granger, and the collections of the editor, Mark Noble, Volume 1 (1806) by Mark Noble (1754-1827)
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A biographical history of England, from the revolution to the end of George I's reign; being a continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's work: consisting of characters disposed in different classes; and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads; interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons. The materials being supplied by the manuscripts left by Granger, and the collections of the editor, Mark Noble, Volume 2 (1806) by Mark Noble
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A biographical history of England, from the revolution to the end of George I's reign; being a continuation of the Rev. J. Granger's work: consisting of characters disposed in different classes; and adapted to a methodical catalogue of engraved British heads; interspersed with a variety of anecdotes, and memoirs of a great number of persons. The materials being supplied by the manuscripts left by Granger, and the collections of the editor, Mark Noble, Volume 3 (1806) by Mark Noble
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