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Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I
Date transcribed | 2011-04-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note 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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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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