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John Grainger (1830, Belfast– 1891) was an Irish cleric and antiquarian. Grainger was educated at Belfast Academy and Trinity College, Dublin. After gaining a Doctorate of Divinity he became Rector of Broughshane, County Antrim. He was an indiscriminating collector, who filled his house with a mass of often unlabelled specimens including stuffed birds, shells, insects, coins, minerals, a dolmen, weapons from New Zealand, and archaeological finds.According to Robert Lloyd Praeger his collection of Irish stone tools was ‘’especially valuable as a study in the gentle art of forgery’’. ==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. He was a member of the Royal Irish Academy and of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society and the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Grainger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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