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 Eton and Sandhurst : served with the Seaforth Highlanders, 1863–95 : in the Madras famine, 1877–8 : Brig-Major during Afghan war, 1879–80, and in Mahsud-Waziri expedition, 1881 : served in Black Mountain expedition, 1891 : A.A.G., Panjab command, 1895–7 : commanded Regimental Districts in Scot- land : retired : C.B., 1900.

GRANT, JAMES ( ? - ? )

In the service of the E.I. Co. : was stationed in Bengal, 1784–9 : selected by the Government to superintend the native management of the revenues : found him-self obliged to expose the abuses connected with the whole system of native agency : appointed Chief Sarishtadar, or general superintendent of native revenue accounts under the Board of Revenue, 1786 : his tract, —An Inquiry into the Nature of Zemindary Tenures in the Landed Property of Bengal, 1791—gives the best account of the native revenue system.

GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)

The African traveller : born April 11, 1827 : son of James Grant : educated at Nairn and Aberdeen schools and at the Marischal College, Aberdeen : joined the 8th Bengal N.I. in 1846 : was present at Multan and Gujarat : Adjutant : was with the 78th Highlanders at the relief of Lucknow : accompanied J. H. Speke on his African expedition, 1861–4, including the discovery of the source of the Nile : received the Gold Medal of the Geographical Society, 1864 : C.B., 1866 : in the Intelligence Department in the Abyssinian expedition : C.S.I. : retired as Lt-Colonel, 1868 : died Feb. 11, 1892 : wrote A Walk across Africa, 1864 : and in scientific Journals about his travels.

GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1875)

Son of Francis Grant : born July 22, 1808 : educated at Edinburgh and Hofwyl, Switzerland : remained in the 9th Lancers from Colonel in 1826 to Maj-General in 1858 : Brig-Major to Lord Saltoim in the first Chinese war, 1840–2 : C.B. : in the first Sikh war, 1845–6, including Sobraon : in the Panjab campaign of 1848–9, at Ramnagar, Chilianwala and Gujarat : Brevet-Lt-Colonel : was at Umbala when the mutiny broke out : Brigadier of the cavalry : at Badli-ka-sarai : at the siege of Delhi : the relief of Lucknow : Cawnpur : commanded movable columns and the trans-Gogra force : K.C.B., 1858 : commanded in the second Chinese war, 1860–1 : captured the Taku forts and Pekin : G.C.B. : C. in C. at Madras, Dec. 1861–May, 1865 : Q.M.G. of the Army, 1865–70 : in command at Aldershot, 1870, where he initiated the autumn manoeuvres, and introduced many improvements : he was strong in his religious views : died March 7, 1875.

GRANT, JAMES WILLIAM (1788–1865)

Born Aug. 12, 1788 : son of Robert Grant : was in the E.I. Co.'s Civil Service, 1805–49 : devoted himself to astronomy, the microscope and other scientific pursuits : he made a granite observatory on the Elchies estates, and there had the "Trophy Telescope" : he was F.R.A.S., 1864 : died Sep. 17, 1865.

GRANT, SIR JOHN PETER (1774–1848)

Son of William Grant, M.D. of London and Rothiemurchus : born Sep. 21, 1774 : succeeded his uncle in the Rothiemurchus estate in 1790 : educated at Cambridge : read law at Edinburgh : called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn, 1802 : M.P. for Great Grimsby and Tavistock : went to Bombay in 1827 as a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court there : knighted : when the Bombay Government interfered to prevent the execution of decrees of the Court, a rupture took place, and Grant closed the Court in April, 1829 : Lord Ellenborough, at the Board of Control, appointed a new Chief Justice, Sir J. Dewar, and a new Judge, writing that Grant "will be like a wild elephant led between two tame ones." Grant resigned his appointment, left Bombay in Sep. 1830, and went over to Calcutta : practised there at the bar, and became a Puisne Judge, 1833–48, of the Calcutta Supreme Court. He died May 17, 1848, on his voyage homewards : he wrote on legal subjects.

GRANT, SIR JOHN PETER (1807–1893)

I.C.S. : son of Sir John Peter Grant (q.v.) : born Nov. 23, 1807 : educated at Eton, Edinburgh University, Haileybury : went to India in 1828 : served for four years in the N.W.P. : Secretary in 1832 to the Board of Revenue, Calcutta :