About John Grainger
Lived 1830 – 1891 (aged 60–61). John Grainger was an anthropologist, archaeologist and zoologist.
John Grainger (19 March 1830, Belfast – 24 November ) was an Irish cleric and antiquarian.
Family He was the oldest of six children; he never married.
Works Partial list 1853. Catalogue of the Shells found in the Alluvial Deposits of a Belfast site of the Irish Mesolithic. Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. 56 C, 1-195. --- Results of excavations in High St., Belfast. Ulster Journ. Arch. ix. 113-121. 1874. On the Fossils of the Post-tertiary Deposits of Ireland. Rep. Bmt. Assoc, for 1874; Sections, pp. 73–76. 1882. Affairs in Ulster 1607–43
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Irish cleric and antiquarian
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John Grainger was born in 1830.
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John Grainger died in 1891.
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John Grainger was an anthropologist, archaeologist and zoologist.
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