Robert Grant

Resident merchant on Antigua; awarded compensation for 2 large estates in Antigua as trustee to the heirs of R. French (this was Robert French, his father-in-law).

1. Vere Langford Oliver shows a memorial to Robert Grant: 'St. Philip's Churchyard. On a ledger over tomb inside railings : —

IN MEMORY OF ROBERT GRANT ESQ. OF THIS ISLAND WHO AFTER PROTRACTED SUFFERING FROM AN ACUTE AND PAINFUL DISORDER BORN WITH PIOUS FORTITUDE AND RESIGNATION DEPARTED THIS LIFE the 16 DAY OF APRIL 1839 AGED 60 YEARS.'

T71/877 Antigua claim nos. 42 (Eliotts) and 88 ((Cochrane's, St Paul's). Langford Vere Oliver, History of the Island of Antigua (London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894) Vol. 1 pp. 272-277, 'Pedigree of French'.

1. Langford Vere Oliver, History of the Island of Antigua (London, Mitchell and Hughes, 1894) Vol. 2 p. 32.