Patrick Grant was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1860. He was the son of a stonemason. He migrated to NSW in 1885. As a dairy farmer at Nambucca River, Macksville on the north coast of New South Wales he had a famous herd of Ayreshires. He and his wife Beatrice had eight children, six of them employed as adults on their 400-acre farm. In other words they were successful small farmers, not members of the landed elite like Alister Clark and Olive Fitzhardinge.
He was president of the Primary Producers Union 1904–1934. Judith Oyston, historian of the National Rose Society of NSW, writes that he was its president at least from 1929 to 1931. He remained on the committee 1932–1943. The Society's championship cup for a rose exhibit is called the Patrick Grant Cup.
He also had a North Shore address at 26 Clanwilliam Street, Chatswood from the 1927 at least (phone book entry), with a garden perhaps too small to raise seedlings in (though he may have had the third of an acre behind his house now devoted to tennis courts). Ms Oyston suggests crosses may have been made at Macksville, but budwood would have been supplied to the trial ground at Hazlewoods'.
All the same, Alister Clark visited his and other Sydney rose breeders' gardens in 1928, so Grant must have had something worth visiting.
When he died on 28 September 1945 (NSW death certificate 1945/015836) the Sydney Morning Herald (24 October 1945 p.2) said he had been one of the two leading rose breeders in Australia, the other presumably being Alister Clark. It particularly praised Mr Grant's 'Golden Dawn' as possibly the finest of all yellow roses, and his 'Salmon Spray' as in world class among "cluster roses."
The fifth edition of A.S. Thomas's "Better Roses" of 1969 gives his list of the 80 finest roses bred by then in Australia or New Zealand. Both 'Golden Dawn' and 'Salmon Spray' are on it.

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