A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, Edward
GRANT. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 31.)
Edward Grant entered the Navy, 15 April, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Gibraltar 80, Capts. John Halliday, Jas. Johnstone, Henry Lidgbird Ball, and Valentine Collard; in which ship he beheld, as Midshipman, the destruction of the French squadron in Basque Roads in April, 1809. In June, 1810, he removed to the Courageux 74, Capt. Wm. Butterfield, stationed off the coast of France, wherej in the following month, he again joined the Gibraltar, then commanded by Capt. Robt. Plampin. From April, 1811, until Oct. 1813, he served in the Andromache 38, Capt. Geo. Tobin, under whom, after assisting at the siege of St. Sebastian, he escorted the French garrison to England, and on 23 of the ensuing month, Oct. 1813, contributed, we believe, to the capture of La Trave, of 44 guns and 321 men, which frigate, although disabled in a previous action, did not surrender until she had sustained a close conflict of 15 minutes. On the following day Mr. Grant was nominated Acting-Lieutenant of the Cyane 22, Capt. Thos. Forrest, and, while in that vessel, he was present, in Jan. 1814, at the capture, off Madeira, of the French 40-gun frigates Iphigénie and Alcmène. Being then successively appointed Admiralty-Midshipman of the Newcastle 50, Capt. Lord Geo. Stuart, and Tonnant 80, flag-ship of Sir Alex. Cochrane, he took part, under the latter officer, in the expedition against New Orleans. He was confirmed a Lieutenant, 29 March, 1815, in the Regulus troop-ship, Capt. Fras. Truscott, but since the following Nov., when he returned to England and was paid off, has been unemployed. Agents – Coplands and Burnett.