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- Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg PC FRS (26 October 1778 – 23 April 1866) was a Scottish politician and colonial administrator who served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies
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Cannes, France. Nationality. Anglo-Indian. Political party. Tory. Whig. Alma mater. Magdalene College, Cambridge. Charles Grant, 1st Baron Glenelg PC FRS (26 October 1778 – 23 April 1866) was a Scottish politician and colonial administrator who served as Secretary of State for War and the Colonies.
Charles Grant. Highlanders must excuse us for the heading of this note which treats of Charles Grant of Indian fame, and his sons, Lord Glenelg and Sir Robert Grant. They were genuine Highlanders by long descent, but the name Anglo-Indian has come into common use and has an understood meaning.
General Sir Charles John Cecil Grant, KCB, KCVO, DSO (1877–1950) was a distinguished British Army officer and descendant of the Glenurquhart cadet family of Sheuglie. He was the son of Lt. Gen. Sir Robert Grant, GCB. General Grant fought in the Second Boer War in South Africa (1899-1902) and in the Great War (1914-1918).
Frederick Banting. Sir Frederick Grant Banting KBE MC FRS FRSC FRCS FRCP [3] [4] [5] (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon. [6] . For his co-discovery of insulin and its therapeutic potential, Banting was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John Macleod. [7]
During the 19th century, the Earls of Seafield were Chiefs of the Clan Grant. In 1858, the 7th Earl, Sir John Charles Ogilvie-Grant (1815-1881), was created 1st Baron Strathspey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, and in 1879, he was made a Knight of the Thistle. The Earls of
Dec 30, 2020 · Sir Charles Grant (1836–1903), elder brother of Sir Robert Grant, was born in 1836, and educated at Harrow, Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Haileybury. He entered the Bengal civil service in 1858, was appointed a commissioner of the central provinces in 1870, and acting chief commissioner in 1879, when he became an additional member of the ...
Portrait of Robert Grant, by William Beechey, 1823 Sir Robert Grant. Sir Robert Grant GCH (1779 – 9 July 1838) was an Anglo-Indian lawyer and politician. He was born in Bengal, India in 1779. His family relocated to England in 1790. He studied law at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and in 1807 passed the bar.
