jQuery Grid Plugin - jqGrid

I am trying to build a jqGrid for the first time using Asp.Net MVC 4 Razor.  I built a view with the "list" table and the "pager" div.

I then built a $(document).ready function calling the grid.  I at first used the text found on various sites and finally used the text from the jqGridwiki page. On each occasion when running the app when the process hits the $(document).ready function it crashes with the error "Object Required".  See code below;  Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

$(document).ready(

function ()

{

$("#list").jqGrid(

{

colNames: ['Int', 'String', 'Date'],

colModel:

[

{ name: 'IntProperty', index: 'IntProperty' },

{ name: 'StringProperty', index: 'StringProperty' },

{ name: 'DateProperty', index: 'DateProperty' },

],

pager: "#pager",

sortname: 'IntProperty',

rowNum: 10,

rowList: [10, 20, 50],

sortorder: "asc",

viewrecords: true,

gridview: true,

autoencode: true,

url: "/Home/GridDemoData"

}

)

}

);

Thanks in advance for getting me past this bottleneck