Robert Grant (MP)

After arriving in Britain with their father in 1790, the two brothers were entered as students of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1795.

[3] Grant was called to the bar the same day as his brother, 30 January 1807, and entered into legal practice, becoming King's Sergeant in the Court of the Duchy of Lancaster, and one of the Commissioners in Bankruptcy.

They were, however, rejected in the Upper House, which did not yield on the question until 1858, twenty years after Grant's death.

As governor, Grant was a law unto himself and under his rule a multitude of large-scale projects were pushed forward which were to transform the shape of British policy in the East.

He was the author of a volume of sacred poems, which was edited and published after his death by his brother, Lord Glenelg.

Attribution This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: The Northern Highlands in the nineteenth century (1907) by James Barron