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John Webster Grant was born in Truro, Nova Scotia on June 27, 1919. He graduated with a B.A. in 1938, and an M.A. in 1941 from Dalhousie University, he did graduate work in Politics Princeton University from 1938-1939, and he received a Certificate in Theology at Pine Hill Divinity Hall, and was ordained in 1943. Additionally, he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1941 and received a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University in 1948. Outside of church work, during the Second World War, he was Director to Non-Roman Catholic Churches, and a Chaplain in the Royal Canadian Navy. He was editor in chief at Ryerson Press from 1959-1963. Throughout his career as an educator, Grant taught systematic theology at Pine Hill Divinity Hall (1945-6), church history at Union College in Vancouver (1949-1959), and church history at Emmanuel College from 1963 until his retirement in 1984. From 1957-1958 he taught at United Theological College in Bangalore, India. He was a member of numerous committees and commissions for the United Church, including those on Christian Faith, Worship, Hymn Book, General Commission on Church Union and Archives. Grant also did ministry work, his student mission fields were at Cape George (1938), Vaughan (1939), Mount Uniacke and West Bay (1943), Pictou (1949) in Nova Scotia, Stone, Saskatchewan (1940), and Harrington Harbour, Quebec in 1941. Grant was married to Gwendolen Margaret Irwin in 1944. He died on December 16, 2006.
Throughout his career, Grant wrote extensively on the history of Christianity. He published over nine books, edited others, and was published in numerous articles.