John Peter Grant
Sir John Peter Grant, KCB, GCMG, (28 November 1807 - 6 January 1893), was a British colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal and as Governor of Jamaica.
Life
John Peter Grant was born in London on 28 November 1807. His parents were the similarly named John Peter Grant, who came from Rothiemurchus, Inverness-shire, and his wife, Jane, a daughter of William Ironside from Houghton-le-Spring, County Durham.[1]
Grant was educated at Eton College from 1819, spent some time at Edinburgh University and then, in 1827, became a student at the East India College in Haileybury. He joined the Bengal Civil Service in the following year and spent some time at Fort William College in Calcutta before being appointed as an assistant magistrate in Bareilly. The experience there did not suit him and he returned to Calcutta in 1832.[1]
There followed a nine-year period during which Grant held various secretarial posts in the administration.[1]
Jamaica
Grant was responsible for the disestablishment of the Anglican Church in Jamaica, which took place in 1870,[2] and he also established a constabulary in 1867[3] as well as instituting Crown Colony rule there.[4]
Family
On 16 February 1835, Grant married Henrietta Isabella Phillippa Plowden at Calcutta Cathedral. She was the daughter of another Bengal Civil Service officer, Trevor Chichele Plowden. The couple had five sons and three daughters, one of whom subsequently married Sir Richard Strachey.[1]
See also
- John Peter Grant, 13th Earl of Dysart
- List of Governors of Bengal
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Grant, Sir John Peter (1807–1893), administrator in India and colonial governor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/11274. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ Bryan, Patrick (2000). The Jamaican People, 1880-1902: Race, Class, and Social Control. University of West Indies Press. p. 49. ISBN 9789766400941.
- ↑ Bryan, Patrick (2000). The Jamaican People, 1880-1902: Race, Class, and Social Control. University of West Indies Press. p. 81. ISBN 9789766400941.
- ↑ Bryan, Patrick (2000). The Jamaican People, 1880-1902: Race, Class, and Social Control. University of West Indies Press. p. 12. ISBN 9789766400941.
Further reading
- Buckland, Charles Edward (1901). Bengal Under The Lieutenant-Governors 1. Calcutta: S. K. Lahiri & Co. pp. 163–271.
- Marsala, Vincent John (1972). Sir John Peter Grant, Governor of Jamaica, 1866-1874: An Administrative History. Institute of Jamaica.
- Seton-Karr, Walter Scott (1899). Grant of Rothiemurchus; A Memoir of the Services of Sir John Peter Grant. London: John Murray (for private circulation).
External links
Portrait of Grant by George Frederick Watts, in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery
| Government offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Sir Frederick James Halliday |
Lieutenant-governor of Bengal 1859–1862 |
Succeeded by Sir Cecil Beadon |
| Preceded by Henry Knight Storks |
Governor of Jamaica 1866–1874 |
Succeeded by W. A. G. Young (acting) |