Grave of Charles Grant

Charles Grant (23 February 2009)


Commodore Charles Grant was the commander of a British naval force on an expedition to Burma to counter Burmese aggression against the East India Company. Born in 1770, Grant was mortally ill when he left for Penang on 21 May 1824. He died in Penang on 25 July of the same year, and was buried at the Protestant Cemetery.

There is also a Charles Grant, perhaps a different person, who was the Chairman of the East India Company. According to my research, his name was mentioned in a letter written by Stamford Raffles in Batavia (Jakarta) to him, defending his (Raffles') administration in Java.

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