Sir James Augustus Grant, 1st Baronet

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Sir James Augustus Grant, 1st Baronet (3 March 1867 – 29 July 1932) was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Egremont from January 1910 unti the constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election. He was then elected as MP for Whitehaven, but lost that seat at the 1922 general election to Labour Party candidadte,Thomas Gavan Duffy.

Grant did not contest the 1923 general election, but returned to the House of Commons at the 1924 general election as MP for South Derbyshire. He retired from Parliament at the 1929 election, having been made a Baronet in July 1926, of Househill, Nairn. The baronetcy became extinct on his death in 1932, aged 65.

[edit] References

• Craig, F. W. S. [1969] (1983). British parliamentary election results 1918-1949, 3rd edition, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X. 
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Hugh Fullerton	Member of Parliament for Egremont 1910–1918	Succeeded by (constituency abolished)
Preceded by Thomas Richardson	Member of Parliament for Whitehaven 1918–1922	Succeeded by Thomas Gavan Duffy
Preceded by Henry Dubs Lorimer	Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire 1924–1929	Succeeded by David Graham Pole
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by (new creation)	Baronet of Househill, Nairn 1926–1932	Succeeded by (extinct)