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| | CHARLES GRANT, BARON GLENELG - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES GRANT, BARON GLENELG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | (1778-1866), eldest son of Charles Grant (q.v.), chairman of the directors of the East India Company, was born in India on the 26th of October 1778, and was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1802. |
 | | In 1823 he was appointed vice-president of the board of trade; from September 1827 to June 1828 he was president of the board and treasurer of the navy; then joining the Whigs, he was president of the board of control under Earl Grey and Lord Melbourne from November 1830 to November 1834. |
 | | Grant wrote a Sketch of the History of the East India Co. (1813), and is also known as a writer of hymns. |
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