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 The Story of the University of Edinburgh : on female education, endowed schools, and articles in Reviews, etc. : died suddenly Nov. 30, 1884.

GRANT, CHARLES (1746–1823)

Born April 16, 174C, the date of the battle of Culloden, at which his father, Alexander, was severely wounded : educated at Elgin : apprenticed at Cromarty, 1758, and a clerk in London, 1763–67 : went to India in 1767 : attended to the private trade of Richard Becher, the Resident at Murshidabad : worked hard in the terrible Bengal famine of 1770 : suffered from fever : returned to Scotland, 1771–2 : and went out again as a "writer" to Bengal, in 1772–3 : became a "factor," and then Secretary to the Board of Trade at Calcutta : in 1781 commercial resident at Malda, in charge of the silk filature : the post was very lucrative : Grant had his accounts examined by Cornwallis, who expressed a wish that all the Company's servants were equally scrupulous : in 1787 he was made Fourth Member of the Board of Trade, with the superintendence of all the Company's trade in Bengal. He supported mission work in Bengal. When the mission church (J. Z. Kiernander's) in Calcutta was attached by the Sheriff, Grant paid down 10,000 rupees to save it, and assigned it to the Church Missionary Society. He retired in 1790. He wrote, in 1792, his Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain, advocating the cause of missions and education : it was printed for Parliament in 1813 : he wrote the despatch from England on the Permanent Settlement of 1793 : he became M.P. for Inverness in 1802, and for the county from 1804–18 : he was Chairman of the Court of Directors in 1805, 1809, and 1815, and in Parliament took a leading part in all discussions on the E.I. Co.'s affairs, such as the renewal of the Charter in 1813, the China trade, missions, the Press, etc. : he opposed the Marquess Wellesley's warlike policy, and supported in 1808 the motion for his impeachment. In the new Charter he obtained an annual grant for education in India, the appointment of Bishops in India, and greater freedom for missionary work. He promoted the establishment of the E.I. Co.'s College at Hertford Castle in 1806, moved to Haileybury in 1809. He was a prominent member of the Clapham sect and of the religious Societies, and had much influence in the selection of missionary chaplains for India. He was Chairman of the Commissioners for the issue of Exchequer Bills, and served on the Commission for the building of churches. He retired from Parliament in 1818, and died on Oct. 31, 1823 : the E.I. Co. placed a memorial of him in St. George's Church, Bloomsbury. No one, at the time of Charles Grant, laboured harder to raise the moral condition of India, its inhabitants and officials, or had greater influence in the settlement of Indian affairs than he had, as Director of the E.I. Co. and as M.P. : he had remarkable moral courage, a masterful hand, a determined will, and a hot temper under control.

GRANT, SIR CHARLES (1836–1903)

Son of Sir Robert Grant (q.v.) : born in 1836 : educated at Harrow, Trinity College, Cambridge, Haileybury : went to India, 1858 : served in the N.W.P. and Central Provinces : Secretary to the Chief Commissioner, 1861 : Commissioner, 1870 : compiled the Central Provinces Gazetteer : acted as Judicial Commissioner and as Chief Commissioner in 1879 : Member of the Governor-General's Legislative Council, 1879–80 : Acting Home Secretary, 1880 : Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 1881–85 : when he retired : K.C.S.I., 1885 : died April 12, 1903.

GRANT, CHARLES JAMES WILLIAM ( ? - )

Son of Lt-General D. G. S. Grant : educated privately and at Sandhurst : joined the Army, 1882, and the Madras Staff Corps, 1884 : A.D.C. to Lt-General Dormer, C. in C. in Madras, 1891 : Officiating A.A.G., Madras District, 1897 : served in the Burma expedition, 1886–7 : in Manipur, where he proceeded to assistance of Chief Commissioner's defeated escort' : stormed and held Thobal, till relieved, March 31-April 9, 1891 : severely wounded : Captain and Brevet-Major and V.C. : second in command 32nd Burma Infantry Frontier Force.

GRANT, HUGH GOUGH (1845–)

Born July 23, 1845 : son of Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant : educated at