Introduction

Biography

Robert was the son of was Charles Grant, East In­dia Com­pa­ny di­rect­or and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for In­ver­ness.

His fa­mi­ly moved from In­dia to Eng­land when Ro­bert was six years old. He at­tend­ed Mag­da­lene College, Cam­bridge (BA 1801, MA 1804), and be­came a law­yer in 1807.

In 1826, he be­came a Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for In­ver­ness. He be­came Pri­vy Coun­cil­or in 1831, and Judge Ad­vo­cate Ge­ne­ral in 1832. In 1834, he was knight­ed, and re­turned to In­dia to be Go­ver­nor of Bom­bay (Mum­bai).

His work ap­peared in the Chris­tian Ob­serv­er (1806–15), El­liott’s Psalms and Hymns (1835), and Sac­red Po­ems, pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly by his bro­ther, Lord Glen­elg, in 1839, and re­print­ed in 1844 and 1868.

Works

• A Sketch of the His­to­ry of the East In­dia Com­pa­ny, 1813
• The Ex­pe­di­en­cy Main­tained of Con­tin­uing the Sys­tem by Which the Trade and Gov­ern­ment of In­dia Are Now Re­gu­lat­ed