John Peter Grant (MP)

John Peter Grant (21 September 1774 – 17 May 1848)[1][2] was a Scottish politician from Inverness-shire who sat in the House of Commons for English constituencies between 1812 and 1826.

Life

John Peter Grant was born in 1774. Educated at Edinburgh High School and Edinburgh University, he was a Member of Parliament (MP for Great Grimsby from 1812 to 1818,[1] then for Tavistock from 1819 to 1826.[2][3]

Despite deriving a substantial income from the extraction of timber from his Rothiemrchus estate in Badenoch, his debts mounted[4] and in 1827 bankruptcy obliged him to move with his family to British India, where he served as Puisne judge of Bombay until 1830, and of Bengal from 1833 to 1848.[3] His children included Sir John Peter Grant the M.P. and Elizabeth Grant the diarist.[5]

He died on board ship during a return journey to Britain, and was buried at sea.

His wife Jane Ironside Grant is buried against the original north wall of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh; the gravestone is also a memorial to her husband.

References

  1. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "G" (part 2)
  2. ^ a b Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "T" (part 1)
  3. ^ a b Fisher, David R. (2009). D.R. Fisher (ed.). "GRANT, John Peter (1774-1848), of The Doune of Rothiemurchus, Inverness". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  4. ^ Taylor, David (2022), The People Are Not There: The Transformation of Badenoch 1800 - 1863, John Donald, Edinburgh, pp. xxi & 82, ISBN 9781910900987
  5. ^ Christine Lodge, ‘Smith , Elizabeth (1797–1885)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Sept 2015


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