W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

Born in 1868, W. Grant Hague, also listed as William Grant Hague, was a medical doctor whose books were aimed at ordinary readers rather than specialists. Title pages for The Eugenic Marriage identify him as an M.D. trained at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, and as a member of county and national medical organizations.

He is chiefly known for The Eugenic Marriage, published in four volumes in 1914, and for The Eugenic Mother and Baby. These books mixed practical advice about reproduction, pregnancy, and child care with the language and assumptions of the early 20th-century eugenics movement.

Today, Hague's writing is read less as dependable medical guidance than as a window into the beliefs and anxieties of his time. For modern readers, his books can be useful historical documents, showing how medicine, family life, and social theory were often intertwined in ways that are now strongly challenged.