He was born in 1782 in West Alvington, Devon, the eldest son of Sir Alexander Grant, 7th Baronet and Sarah Cray.
He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge in 1806 with a Master of Arts (MA).
[1] He entered politics in Jamaica, where he owned two plantations, as a member of the Jamaican colonial assembly from 1810 to 1811.
In 1812, he returned to England, where he successfully stood as a Tory Member of Parliament for Tregony in the House of Commons.
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