Charles Grant

(1746-1823)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Grant, Charles, 1746-1823 NRA: Grant, Charles (1746-1823), statesman and philanthropist DNB: Grant, Charles (1746-1823), director of the East India Company and philanthropist LBT ID: ChGrant1823 VIAF ID: 67406506 LOC ID: n88138948	B/BAP: 1746 DIED: 1823-10-31
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Scottish philanthropist and director of the East India Company; he was Whig MP for Inverness-shire (1804-18) and an opponent of the Duke of Wellington.
REFERENCES TO Charles Grant: John Allen to John Whishart, 19 August 1814 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1: ¶ 4 Scott, John, 1784-1821, “Blackwood’s Magazine” in London Magazine 2 (November 1820) 509-21 Found 1: ¶ 20 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 10: Robert Burns Found 2: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter II: 1814