Henry Grant (British Army officer)
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Sir Henry Fane Grant GCB
GCVO
(13 December 1848 - 22 April 1919) was a British Army
officer who commanded 5th Division.
, Grant was commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars
in 1868 and took part in the Nile Expedition
in 1884. He became Assistant Adjutant-General in Bengal
in 1891, Inspector-General of Cavalry in India
in 1893 and Inspector of Cavalry in the United Kingdom in 1898. He went on to be General Officer Commanding
5th Division in 1903 and Governor of Malta in 1907 before he retired in 1909.
In retirement he became Lieutenant of the Tower of London
. He was killed while out rabbit-shooting in Scotland and is commemorated by a memorial tablet at Duthil
Church near Carrbridge
.
General
A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....
Sir Henry Fane Grant GCB
Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
GCVO
Royal Victorian Order
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(13 December 1848 - 22 April 1919) was a British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
officer who commanded 5th Division.
Military career
Born the son of General Sir Patrick GrantPatrick Grant
Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, GCB, GCMG was a senior British Army officer.-Military career:He was the second son of Major John Grant, of the 97th Regiment of Foot, of Auchterblair, Invernessshire, where he was born....
, Grant was commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars
4th Queen's Own Hussars
The 4th Queen's Own Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958....
in 1868 and took part in the Nile Expedition
Nile Expedition
The Nile Expedition, sometimes called the Gordon Relief Expedition , was a British mission to relieve Major-General Charles George Gordon at Khartoum, Sudan. Gordon had been sent to the Sudan to help Egyptians evacuate from Sudan after Britain decided to abandon the country in the face of a...
in 1884. He became Assistant Adjutant-General in Bengal
Bengal
Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...
in 1891, Inspector-General of Cavalry in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
in 1893 and Inspector of Cavalry in the United Kingdom in 1898. He went on to be General Officer Commanding
General Officer Commanding
General Officer Commanding is the usual title given in the armies of Commonwealth nations to a general officer who holds a command appointment. Thus, a general might be the GOC II Corps or GOC 7th Armoured Division...
5th Division in 1903 and Governor of Malta in 1907 before he retired in 1909.
In retirement he became Lieutenant of the Tower of London
Constable of the Tower
The Constable of the Tower is the most senior appointment at the Tower of London. In the middle ages a constable was the person in charge of a castle when the owner - the king or a nobleman - was not in residence...
. He was killed while out rabbit-shooting in Scotland and is commemorated by a memorial tablet at Duthil
Duthil
Duthil is a small village, bypassed from the A938 road,at the junction with the road B9007, near Carrbridge in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland....
Church near Carrbridge
Carrbridge
Carrbridge is a village in Badenoch and Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands. It lies off the A9 road on the A938 road, west of Skye of Curr, southeast of Findhom Bridge, near Bogroy.It has the oldest stone bridge in the Highlands and nearby ancient pine forest contains the Landmark Forest...
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