Henry Fane Grant

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Sir Henry Fane Grant GCVO GCB ( December 13, 1848 - April 22, 1919 ) was a British officer .

Life

Henry Fane Grant comes from the family of the Grants of Auchendoun / Auchterblair , a Scottish family clan that was founded in 1732 and goes back to the Grants of Tullochgorm . His father, Sir Patrick Grant , was a Field Marshal in the British Army and his mother, Frances Maria, was the daughter of Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough . Grant joined the British Army in the 4th (The Queen's Own) Regiment of Hussars in 1868 . This cavalry regiment was established in 1685 and lasted for nearly three centuries until 1958. At the time, service as an officer in the cavalry was reserved for wealthy men. Grant was listed as a cornet in this regiment in 1868 .

Grant then served in the Egyptian Army and reached the rank of Brevet - Lieutenant-Colonel . Such alternations between the British Army and the armies of the Colonies , Dominions, and United Kingdom dependent states were quite common at the time. While serving in the Egyptian army, Grant received the Mecidiye Order, Third Class. Promoted to major in 1881 , he was involved in the suppression of a mutiny among soldiers of Turkish descent from Egyptian troops; regardless of its dependence on Great Britain, Egypt was formally part of the Ottoman Empire at that time . Grant took part in the Nile Expedition under Garnet Wolseley , sent back to the Egyptian Army by the 4th Hussars . For his services during the campaign he was praised in the army report (Mentioned in Despatches), made Knight of the Order of the Bath and awarded the Star of the Khedive .

Grant was appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry on his return to Great Britain. In the British armed forces, an inspector general was primarily responsible for training and exercising the troops, a command was not associated with this post. He was succeeded in this post in 1903 by General Robert Baden-Powell , who comprehensively reorganized the British cavalry. Then Grant took command of the 5th Infantry Division . This division was set up in 1807 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington and was one of the active major units of the British Army. After taking command of the division, Clarke was given command of the II Corps . This corps was to be formed from the Southern Command for the defense of the British Isles. Overall, the reform begun by St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton in 1901, provided for the formation of six corps for the defense of the United Kingdom, of which, however, only the I and II Corps were to be formed from regular troops. The plans remained theory, however, with the Haldane reforms , the British Expeditionary Force formed from a total of six divisions was set up. By de facto dissolution of the Corps, as was Grant in 1907, Lieutenant-General Governor and Commander in Chief (Governor and Commander-in-Chief) of Malta . His father, Sir Patrick Grant, had already held this post from 1867 to 1872. In 1909, Henry Fane Grant retired as a general . In 1909 he was assigned the apartment of the Lieutenant of the Tower of London by a royal patent .

On June 26, 1908, Grant Knight had become Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

In 1898 Grant married Lily Sandys. Grant was shot while hunting a rabbit in 1919 .

literature

  • HG Hart: The new Army List, Standing, and Various Services of Every Regimental Officer , John Murray, London, 1869 (English)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Otago Witness, March 29, 1909 (English)
  2. ↑ see Hart, p. 41
  3. ↑ London Gazette, July 26, 1881  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 92 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  4. ↑ London Gazette, August 5, 1884  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 121 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  5. ↑ Star, January 15, 1903 (English)
  6. ↑ London Gazette, August 20, 1909 (English; PDF; 89 kB)
  7. ↑ London Gazette, June 23, 1908  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English; PDF; 112 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thegazette.co.uk  
  8. ↑ Northern Territory Times and Gazette, November 22, 1919  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / newspapers.nla.gov.au  
predecessor Office successor
General Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke Governor of Malta
1907–1909 		General Sir Leslie Rundle
personal data
SURNAME Grant, Henry Fane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British General and Governor of Malta
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1848
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1919