Patrick Grant (1795−14 May 1855) was an English businessman who was an Australian politician and Police Magistrate.
Politician Henry Hunt brought a libel action against Grant, the True Sun's proprietor, publisher John Bell, and printer John Ager for an article published on 18 December 1832; however, Hunt was awarded damages of one farthing.
[1][2] Grant, Bell and Ager were prosecuted, convicted and confined in 1834 to the King's Bench Prison for advocating tax resistance against the British government's window tax.
He was a police magistrate at Maitland, in the Hunter Valley and sub editor of the Sydney Gazette.
[7] Grant subsequently moved to Redcastle, Scotland and died in London on 16 October 1855(1855-10-16) (aged 59–60).