Sir Alexander Grant, 8th Baronet

Sir Alexander Cray Grant, 8th Baronet (13 November 1782 – 29 November 1854) was a British politician and plantation owner in the West Indies.

He was born in 1782 in West Alvington, Devon, the eldest son of Sir Alexander Grant, 7th Baronet and Sarah Cray. He graduated from St John's College, Cambridge in 1806 with a Master of Arts (MA).[1] He entered politics in Jamaica, where he owned two plantations, as a member of the Jamaican colonial assembly from 1810 to 1811. In 1812, he returned to England where he successfully stood as a Tory Member of Parliament for Tregony in the House of Commons. In 1818, he was elected as MP for Lostwithiel, and was re-elected there in June 1826, although he was also elected to Aldborough which he chose to represent instead. From 1826 to 1831, Grant was the Chairman of Ways and Means in the House of Commons. He was unsuccessful in elections for Grimsby in 1835, and Honiton, but re-entered the House representing Cambridge in 1840, until 1843.[2]

Grant succeeded his father as Baronet of Dalvey upon the latter's death in 1825. Grant himself died in London on 29 November 1854 aged 72, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother, Robert Innes Grant.

References

  1. "Grant, Alexander Cray (GRNT799AC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. John C. Appleby, ‘Grant, Sir Alexander Cray, eighth baronet (1782–1854)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008. Retrieved 20 April 2009.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Gore Langton
James O'Callaghan
Member of Parliament for Tregony
1812–1818
With: William Holmes
Succeeded by
Viscount Barnard
James O'Callaghan
Preceded by
Viscount Valletort
John Ashley Warre
Member of Parliament for Lostwithiel
1818–1826
With: Sir Robert Wigram (until June 1826)
Viscount Valletort
Succeeded by
Viscount Valletort
Edward Cust
Preceded by
Henry Fynes
Gibbs Antrobus
Member of Parliament for Aldborough
1826–1830
With: Clinton James Fynes Clinton
Succeeded by
Clinton James Fynes Clinton
Viscount Stormont
Preceded by
Robert Peel
Sir George Warrender
Member of Parliament for Westbury
1830–1831
With: Michael George Prendergast
Succeeded by
Sir Ralph Lopes
Henry Hanmer
Preceded by
John Manners-Sutton
George Pryme
Member of Parliament for Cambridge
1840–1843
With: George Pryme (until 1841)
John Manners-Sutton
Succeeded by
John Manners-Sutton
Fitzroy Kelly
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Alexander Grant
Baronet
(of Dalvey)
1825–1854
Succeeded by
Robert Innes Grant


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