David Grant

David Grant was a Scottish amateur musician, precentor, arranger, and businessman associated with nineteenth-century congregational psalmody in Aberdeen. Born in Aberdeen in 1833, he worked professionally as a tobacconist while also taking an active part in church music. Contemporary and later accounts identify him as a precentor and as one of the musicians involved in assembling The Northern Psalter and Hymn Tune Book, published in Aberdeen in 1872.

That collection printed CRIMOND under Grant's name, making him the earliest documented credited composer of the tune. Decades later, Jessie Seymour Irvine's sister claimed that Irvine had written the melody and that Grant had only harmonized it. The claim was contested by people connected with the original publication, leaving the authorship question unresolved. Modern hymnals variously credit Grant as composer, harmonizer, arranger, or co-attributed source.

Grant also arranged other melodies for The Northern Psalter, and hymnological sources associate him with the tune RALEIGH. He died in Lewisham, London, in 1893. His place in hymn history rests especially on the publication and transmission of CRIMOND.