A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Grant, John
GRANT. (Commander, 1835. f-p., 1 7; h-p., 24.)
John Grant entered the Navy, in May, 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tribune frigate, Capt. Thos. Baker, whom he accompanied as Midshipman, in 1807, into the Vanguard 74, commanded afterwards by Capt. Henry Rich. Glynn. In 1811, having hitherto served on the Home and Baltic stations, latterly as Master’s Mate of the Christian VII. 80, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Pellew, he sailed with that officer for the Mediterranean on board the Caledonia 120. Being promoted, 25 June, 1812, to a Lieutenancy in the Milford 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Fras. Fremantle, he assisted, in the course of 1813, at the capture of Fiumé, Rovigno, Piran, Capo d’Istria, and Trieste; and on 5 Aug. in the same year he commanded the boats, under Capt. Jas. Black, at the capture, on the island of Ragosniza, of a battery mounting 6 24-pounders and 2 71-inch mortars, and the destruction of a newly-erected signal-tower. Between 1814 and May, 1816, Mr. Grant next served, in the Adriatic, and on the Home and Jamaica stations, in the Revenge 74, flag-ship of Sir John Gore, Eurydice 24, Capt. Hon. Valentine Gardner, Romney 50, Capt. John Mackellar, and Salisbury 50, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral John Erskine Douglas. He was afterwards appointed First-Lieutenant, 21 Sept. 1829, and 18 Oct. 1832, of the Ganges 84, and Spartiate 76, commanded on the Mediterranean and South American stations by Capts. Geo. Burdett and Robt. Tait – the latter as flag-ship for some time of Sir Michael Seymour. He attained his present rank 10 Dec. 1835, and – with the exception of two years’ command, from 30 March, 1838, until paid off in the early part of 1840, of the Talavera 72, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, on the Mediterranean station – has since been on half-pay.