John Peter Grant (MP)

Sir John Peter Grant's grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

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[]

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[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
^ Jump up to: ^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

External links[]

Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Peter Grant

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Henry Loft	Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby 1812–1818 With: Sir Robert Heron, Bt	Succeeded by Charles Tennyson John Nicholas Fazakerley
Preceded by Lord William Russell Lord John Russell	Member of Parliament for Tavistock 1819–1826 With: Lord John Russell to March 1820 John Nicholas Fazakerly March–May 1820 Viscount Ebrington From May 1820	Succeeded by Viscount Ebrington Lord William Russell

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[rayment-g2-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)

[rayment-t1-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)

[histparl-j-p-grant-3] Jump up to: ^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.

[4] Christine Lodge, ‘Smith , Elizabeth (1797–1885)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Sept 2015

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