John Peter Grant (MP)

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.

[2][3] After leaving Parliament and bankrupting his Rothiemrchus estate,[4] he and his family moved to British India, where he served as Puisne judge of Bombay from 1827 to 1830, and of Bengal from 1833 to 1848.

[5] 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.

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