Family and Education
b. Mar. 1746, 1st s. of Alexander Grant (‘The Swordsman’) by Margaret, da. of Donald Macbean of Aldourie, Inverness. educ. Milton charity sch.; Fortrose acad.;W. Mackay, Urquhart and Glenmoriston (1914), 406; Bristol Univ. Lib. Pinney mss, Watson to Baillie, 7 Feb. 1810. Elgin 1753-8. m. 23 Feb. 1773, Jane, da. of Thomas Fraser of Balnain, 3s. 4da.
Offices Held
Writer, E.I. Co. (Bengal) 1773; sec. to board of trade 1774 – 80; factor and commercial resident, Maldah 1780 – 87; jun. merchant 1782, sen. merchant 1784; member, board of trade 1787 90; home 1790.
Dir. Sierra Leone Co. 1791; dir. E.I. Co. 1794 – d., dep.-chairman 1804 – 05, 1807 – 09, chairman 1805 – 06, 1809 – 10, 1815 – 16, dir. Hand in Hand Fire Office 1805; commr. Exchequer loan 1805.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Battersea Rise, Clapham, Surr. and 40 Russell Square, Mdx. and Waternish, Skye, Inverness.
Notes
See H. Morris, Charles Grant (1904) and A. T. Embree, Charles Grant and British Rule in India (1962).
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Commons 1790-1820
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GRANT, Charles I (1746-1823)
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