Lewis Grant (British Army officer)
General Sir Lewis Grant, KCH (né Ludovick Grant; 26 March 1776 – 26 January 1852) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator in the Caribbean.
Grant was born as Ludovick Grant in
In June 1801, Grant was appointed Assistant Quarter and Barrack Master General in
On 13 September 1831, Grant was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order and Knight Bachelor,[4][5] appointed colonel of the 96th Regiment of Foot on 9 April 1839 and awarded an honorary MA from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1847.[6]
On 11 November 1851, he was promoted to general and died suddenly from heart disease a few months later on 26 January 1852, aboard an omnibus on Regent Street, London, while he was travelling to his home on Harley Street.[7][4] He was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.[8]
He had married, on 21 July 1832,[9] to Isabella Elizabeth Grant, daughter of Alexander and Margaret Grant of Tullochgriban.[10] They had one daughter, Isabella Jean Margaret Grant (1842–1913), who married Lt Clinton Fraser Henshaw of the Rifle Brigade on 18 October 1859 at St James, Westminster, and had issue.[11]
References
- Obituary, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 191, p. 406
- ^ "LIBINDX ONLINE GENEALOGICAL SEARCH : Jean Grant". Libindx.moray.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ Dallas, James; R., C. S. (4 November 2018). "The history of the family of Dallas, and their connections and descendants from the twelfth century". Edinburgh, Printed privately by T. and A. Constable. Retrieved 4 November 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Fraser, Lionel Mordaunt, History of Trinidad from 1781–1839 and 1891–1896 (1971), p. 325
- ^ a b "Obituary of General Lewis Grant KCH". The Nassau Guardian. University of Florida Digital Collections. VIII (34): 2. 13 March 1852. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
- ^ "Notice: Knighthood conferred on Major-General Lewis Grant". The London Gazette (18855). England, UK: 1996. 30 September 1831.
- ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, Volume 2, p. 115
- ^ "No. 21262". The London Gazette. 11 November 1851. p. 2965.
- ^ Kensal Green Cemetery Online, Military Archived 16 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "LIBINDX ONLINE GENEALOGICAL SEARCH : Lewis Grant". Libindx.moray.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ^ The Upper Ten Thousand. p. 191.
- ^ "LIBINDX ONLINE GENEALOGICAL SEARCH : Clinton Fraser Henshaw". Libindx.moray.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
