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The record of academic success achieved by Mr. Alexander Grant,

whose name appears among the new list of King's Counsel, is remarkable in itself, including, amongst other dis- tinctions, a Double First and a Fellowship at All Souls'. But it gains an added lustre from the fact that Mr. Grant began life as a half-timer and Board-school boy in Bolton, winning an exhibition which took him to the Manchester Grammar School, and that at the age of fifteen be was left entirely dependent on his own resources. Lancashire may well be proud of the splendid way in which Mr. Grant has climbed the "ladder of learning."