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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)  Robert    
Titles  Sir    
Year of Birth  1779    
Year of Death  1838    
Entry  Governor : second son of Charles Grant (q.v.) : born in Bengal in 1779 : went to England, 1790 : educated at Magdalen College, Cambridge, Craven Scholar, 1799, * third wrangler, Chancellor's Medallist and Fellow : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, 1807 : M.P. for various constituencies from 1818 to 1834 : advocated Jewish emancipation from civil disabilities : Judge Advocate General, 1832 : Governor of Bombay from March 17, 1835 : knighted in 1834 : and G.C.H. : died of apoplexy at Dapuri, July 9, 1838 : wrote Sketch of the History of the E.I. Co., from its First Foundation to 1773 : a View of the System and Merits of the East India College, Haileybury, and a volume of sacred poems, which was edited by his brother, Lord Glenelg. The Grant Medical College at Bombay was erected as a memorial to him.     
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