Robert Edmund Grant

Events

1

Episodes

2

Years

1826–1836

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Robert Edmund Grant, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

1. University College London founded as University of London

   1826–1836

   Role: First professor of comparative anatomy and zoology

   1. 111 February 1826 · London, EnglandEstablishment of London University

      London University was established on 11 February 1826 as a secular alternative to Oxford and Cambridge, lacking state recognition.

   2. 228 November 1836 · London, EnglandIncorporation as University College

      The institution received a royal charter in 1836, becoming University College, London, a founding college of the University of London.

Sources

1. University College London Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-29