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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surnames  Grant    
First Name(s)  John Peter    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1774    
Year of Death  1848    
Entry  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.     
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