Sir John Peter Grant's grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

John Peter Grant (21 September 1774 – 17 May 1848) was a Scottish politician from

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who sat in the

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for English constituencies between 1812 and 1826.

Life

John Peter Grant was born in 1774. Educated at

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and

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, he was a

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(MP for

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from 1812 to 1818, then for

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from 1819 to 1826. After leaving Parliament, he became a judge in

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, serving as

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of Bombay from 1827 to 1830, and of Bengal from 1833 to 1848. His children included Sir John Peter Grant the M.P. and Elizabeth Grant the diarist.Christine Lodge, ‘Smith , Elizabeth (1797–1885)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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/ref> 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

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; the gravestone is also a memorial to her husband.

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* 1774 births 1848 deaths British people in colonial India People from Inverness Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Great Grimsby UK MPs 1812–1818 UK MPs 1818–1820 UK MPs 1820–1826 People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh John Peter Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Tavistock {{UK-law-bio-stub