John Peter Grant (MP)
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John Peter Grant (21 September 1774 – 17 May 1848)[1][2] was a Scottish politician from Inverness-shire who sat in the House of Commons for English constituencies between 1812 and 1826.
Life
[edit]John Peter Grant was born in 1774. Educated at Edinburgh High School and Edinburgh University, he was a Member of Parliament (MP for Great Grimsby from 1812 to 1818,[1] then for Tavistock from 1819 to 1826.[2][3]
After leaving Parliament, he became a judge in British India, serving as Puisne judge of Bombay from 1827 to 1830, and of Bengal from 1833 to 1848.[3] His children included Sir John Peter Grant the M.P. and Elizabeth Grant the diarist.[4]
He died on board ship during a return journey to Britain, and was buried at sea.
His wife Jane Ironside Grant is buried against the original north wall of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh; the gravestone is also a memorial to her husband.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
- ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
- ^ a b Fisher, David R. (2009). D.R. Fisher (ed.). "GRANT, John Peter (1774-1848), of The Doune of Rothiemurchus, Inverness". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
- ^ Christine Lodge, ‘Smith , Elizabeth (1797–1885)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Sept 2015
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