Commodore Charles Grant CB (1770 – 25 July 1824) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station.

In December 1810 men from the Diana succeeded in boarding and setting fire to the French frigate Elize which had run aground at Tatihou island while attempting to escape from La Hogue during the action of 15 November 1810.

[5] Armada also took part in the action of 5 November 1813 when part of the British Mediterranean Fleet led by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, and a French force under Rear-Admiral Julien Cosmao-Kerjulien clashed outside the French port of Toulon.

[7] He was appointed to the Naval Command at the Cape of Good Hope with the rank of Commodore on 1 September 1821.

[9] In that capacity he was appointed commander of a British naval force sent on an expedition to Burma in Spring 1824 to counter Burmese aggression against the East India Company.