Значение слова GRANGER в Литературной энциклопедии

JAMES (1723-1776).-Biographer, was at Oxf. and, entering the Church, became Vicar of Shiplake, Oxon. He _pub._ 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.