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GRANT—GRANTHAM.  120. Being promoted, 25 June, 1812, to a Lieutenancy in the 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, he assisted, in the course of 1813, at the capture of Fiumé, Rovigno, Piran, Capo d’Istria, and Trieste; and on 5 Aug. in the same year he commanded the boats, under Capt. Jas. Black, at the capture, on the island of Ragosniza, of a battery mounting 6 24-pounders and 2 71-inch mortars, and the destruction of a newly-erected signal-tower. Between 1814 and May, 1816, Mr. Grant next served, in the Adriatic, and on the Home and Jamaica stations, in the 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore,  24, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner,  50, Capt. John Mackellar, and  50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas. He was afterwards appointed First-Lieutenant, 21 Sept. 1829, and 18 Oct. 1832, of the 84, and  76, commanded on the Mediterranean and South American stations by Capts. Geo. Burdett and Robt. Tait – the latter as flag-ship for some time of Sir Michael Seymour. He attained his present rank 10 Dec. 1835, and – with the exception of two years’ command, from 30 March, 1838, until paid off in the early part of 1840, of the 72, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, on the Mediterranean station – has since been on half-pay.

 GRANT, Kt. 

, born in 1783, is son of the late Rich. Grant, Esq., Proctor at Jamaica.

This officer entered the Navy, in July, 1798, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 100, Capt. Wm. Bedford, successive flag-ship in the Channel of the late Lord Gardner and Sir Henry Harvey. He became Midshipman, in July, 1801, of the 44, Capts. Thos. Twysden, Hon. John Murray, Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, Walter Lock, and Hon. Henry Hotham, with whom he continued to serve until Sept. 1804; when, on his return from a voyage to Jamaica, he rejoined Lord Gardner in the, off Cork. In the early part of 1805 he returned to the West Indies as Acting-Lieutenant of the sloop, Capts. R. M‘Donnell and Jas. Rich. Dacres. His official promotion taking place on 5 Oct. in the same year, he shortly afterwards joined, in the capacity of Lieutenant, the, Capt. Henry Gage Morris, also stationed in the West Indies, where, in June, 1806, and May, 1807, he became attached to the , Capt. Hall, and , flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Jas. Rich. Dacres. His next appointments were, on the Home, Baltic, Cape of Good Hope, Mediterranean, and Irish stations – 30 Sept. 1809, to the 32, Capt. Edw. Henry Columbine – 8 March, 1809, to the 74, bearing the flag of Lord Gardner – 8 Sept. 1810, and 17 June, 1813, to the  38, and  74, both commanded by Capt. Sam. Warren, under whom, in the former ship, he assisted at the reduction of Java in Sept. 1811 – 15 April, 1815, after six months of half-pay, to the 100, Capt. Edw. Pelham Brenton – and, 7 June following, to the 80, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell. He attained the rank of Commander 7 Nov. 1818; was nominated Second Captain, 17 May, 1827, of the 46, bearing the flag at Halifax of Sir Chas. Ogle; and on 17 May, 1828, was there posted into the 28. Having paid that vessel off in June, 1830, he subsequently joined – 2 May, 1832, for a period of four months, the 36, lying at Chatham – 15 Feb. 1837, the  72, as Flag-Captain to Hon. Sir Chas. Paget, on the North America and West India station, whence he returned in the spring of 1839 – and, 7 Nov. 1845, to the 120, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Chas. Ogle. He resigned the latter appointment in 1846; and is now on half-pay.

Sir Rich. Grant, who had been Knighted on the presentation of a civic address in 1820, married, 29 July, 1846, Lydia, widow of Jas. Lambert, Esq., of Fowlers, Hawkhurst, Kent. – J. Hinxman.

 GRANT. 

was born 14 May, 1789, at Taunton, in Somersetshire, and died 1 Dec. 1845. He was son of Capt. John Grant, who obtained a medal for his services in the 40th Regt. during the first American war, and who afterwards, when belonging to the Prince of Wales’ or Leicestershire Fencibles, fought in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798. One of his cousins, Wm. Cottell, Lieutenant R.M., was mortally wounded on board the 74, at the defeat, in the latter year, of a squadron under Commodore Bompart; and another, the late Capt. Jas. Cottell, R.M., who died in 1842, served in the at Trafalgar. He has left a brother, a Surgeon in H.M. 10th Regt., now at Calcutta.

This officer entered the Navy, 13 Sept. 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capt. Hon. Geo. Heneage Lawrence Dundas, with whom he continued to be employed, in the same ship, and in the 36, and  74, until May, 1814. He frequently came into contact, while in the, with divisions of Spanish and Danish flotillas. He saw, also, an immense deal of boat-service; conveyed Sir John Moore to the shores of Portugal, the Duke of Angoulême to GottenhorgGottenborg [sic], and other members of the French royal family from the latter place to Harwich; assisted, during the Walcheren expedition, in forcing the passage of the batteries between Flushing and Cadsand; was for eight months employed, without once dropping an anchor, with the in-shore squadron off Toulon; partook, while so stationed, of various encounters with the French fleet; contributed, in the boats, to the capture of a large number of armed and other vessels; was often in warm collision with the Italian batteries; and frequently landed for the purpose of destroying the enemy’s stores. On his removal to the, Mr. Grant, in Oct. 1813, commanded the storming-party from that ship at the capture of the defences at Port d’Anzo; and he further served on shore in the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, at the capture of Santa Maria and other strongholds in the Gulf of Spezia, and finally at the reduction of Genoa. On the latter occasion he was sent to take possession of the captured sloop-of-war. From the, which had been recently commanded by Capt. John Lampen Manley, he was transferred, in Dec. 1814, to the 98, Capt. Fred. Lewis Maitland, flagship afterwards of Lord Exmouth, under whom he served at the siege of Gaeta. He went on half-pay in Sept. 1815, having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 11 of the preceding Feb., and did not again go afloat.

Lieut. Grant married in 1837. – J. Hinxman.

 GRANTHAM. 

(a), born 4 Dec. 1790, is son of the late Thos. Bennett Grantham, Esq., Captain in the 15th Regt., by Margaret, daughter of Capt. Arthur Webber, R.N. He is brother of Capt. Thos. Grantham, of the Royal Artillery, and of Arthur Grantham, Esq., of the R.N.

This officer entered the Navy, 20 Feb. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 32, Capts. John Styles, Jas. Brisbane, and Wm. Henry Brown Tremlett; in the boats of which frigate, stationed off the coasts of France and Spain, he appears to have been frequently employed, the greater part of the time as Midshipman, until wrecked off Nantes, while blockading two of the enemy’s frigates, 29 April, 1809. Being confirmed, 23 Oct. following, to a Lieutenancy in the 74, Capt. Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, he subsequently, while on the books of that ship, served with the flotilla at the siege of Cadiz, and was instrumental to the defence of Fort Matagorda during its siege by the French. In Oct. 1810 he exchanged, at Vera Cruz, into the frigate, Capt. John Serrel, and returned to England. Since March, 1811, in the course of which month he went on half-pay, Lieut. Grantham has been unemployed. 