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Grant was born at Malabar Hill, Bombay, on 10 August 1837, was younger son of Sir Robert Grant, governor of Bombay, and was nephew of Lord Glenelg.His mother was Margaret (d. 1885), only daughter of Sir David Davidson of Cantray, Nairnshire, N.B., who married as her second husband Lord Josceline William Percy, M.P., second son of George fifth duke of Northumberland.
Portrait of Robert Grant, by William Beechey, 1823 Sir Robert Grant. Sir Robert Grant GCH (1779 – 9 July 1838) was an Anglo-Indian lawyer and politician. He was born in Bengal, India in 1779. His family relocated to England in 1790. He studied law at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and in 1807 passed the bar.
In 1834 Sir Robert Grant was appointed the Governor of Bombay. He directed his attention to the expediency of establishing a systematic institution in the city for imparting medical knowledge to the, which would be more complete, comprehensive and better planned than the previously abolished medical school.
Grant Road (/graːnt/; station code: GTR), formerly known as Bombay Terminus, is a railway station in South Mumbai, and is the former terminus of the erstwhile Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway. [1] [2] It was named after Sir Robert Grant, the Governor of Bombay between 1835 and 1839.
In 1845, the Grant Medical College and hospital, the third in the country, was founded by Governor Robert Grant. Riots broke out between Muslims and Parsis in October 1851, in consequence of an ill-advised article on Muhammad which appeared in the Gujarathi newspaper. On 16 April 1853 the first-ever Indian railway line began operations between ...
The Grant Road railway station on the Western Railway Line. Grant Road (named after Sir Robert Grant, the Governor of Bombay between 1835 and 1839, formally Maulana Shaukatali Road) is a locality in South Mumbai.
Born in Bombay in 1784, [1] Carnac began nearly three decades of service with the East India Company in India in 1801 [2] and was a director of the Company for various periods between 1827 and 1838. [3] [4] [5] He succeeded Robert Grant as Governor of the Bombay Presidency in 1838, serving for three years in that role. [6]
Charles Grant's son, Sir Robert Grant, who in 1834 was appointed Governor of the Bombay Presidency, played an influential role in the planning of the first medical college in Bombay, which after his unexpected death was named Grant Medical College when it was established in 1845. During 1852–1853 some citizens of Bombay sent petitions to the ...