John Peter Grant
1807–93
Administrator in India and colonial governor. Joined the Bengal civil service, 1828; officiating secretary to the government, 1848; lieutenant-governor, 1859. Governor of Jamaica, 1866–74. In retirement, served as justice of the peace for Hertfordshire and Middlesex, and also for Inverness-shire.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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