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| name =Sir Patrick Grant
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| image =File:Patrick Grant.jpg
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| caption =Sir Patrick Grant
| birth_date ={{birth date|1804|9|11|df=y}}
| death_date ={{death date and age|1895|3|28|1804|9|11|df=y}}
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| birth_place =Auchterblair, [[Inverness-shire]]
| death_place =[[Royal Hospital, Chelsea]], London
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| allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} / [[British Empire]]
| branch =[[British Indian Army|Indian Army]]
| serviceyears =1820–1877
| rank =[[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]]
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| commands =[[Madras Army]]<br>[[Indian Army]]
| battles =
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*[[Gwalior Campaign]]
*[[First Anglo-Sikh War]]
*[[Second Anglo-Sikh War]]
*[[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Mutiny]]
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| awards =[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]<br/>[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George]]
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[[File:Sir Patrick Grant.jpg|thumb|Sir Patrick Grant]]
[[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]] '''Sir Patrick Grant''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GCB|GCMG}} (11 September 1804 – 28 March 1895) was a senior [[British Indian Army|Indian Army]] officer. He fought at the [[Gwalior Campaign#The Battle of Maharajpore|Battle of Maharajpore]] during the [[Gwalior Campaign]], at the [[Battle of Mudki]], the [[Battle of Ferozeshah]] and the [[Battle of Sobraon]] during the [[First Anglo-Sikh War]] and at the [[Battle of Chillianwala]] and the [[Battle of Gujrat]] during the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]]. During the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Mutiny]], as acting [[Commander-in-Chief, India]], he directed the operations against the mutineers, sending forces under [[Henry Havelock]] and [[Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet|James Outram]] for the relief of [[Kanpur|Cawnpore]] and [[siege of Lucknow|Lucknow]]. He later became [[Governor of Malta]].

==Military career==
Born the second son of Major John Grant of the [[97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot|97th Regiment of Foot]] and Anna Trapaud Grant, Grant joined the [[Bengal Native Infantry]] as an [[ensign (rank)|ensign]] on 16 July 1820 and was promoted to lieutenant on 11 July 1823 and to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] on 14 May 1832.<ref name=odnb>{{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11281?docPos=2|title=Sir Patrick Grant |publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|access-date=17 November 2013}}</ref> He became a brigade major in [[Awadh|Oudh]] in 1834 and, having raised the Hariana Light Infantry in 1836, he became second assistant in the adjutant-general's department of the [[Bengal Presidency]] in 1838.<ref name=odnb/>

Grant served under [[Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough|Sir Hugh Gough]] as deputy assistant adjutant-general at the [[Gwalior Campaign#The Battle of Maharajpore|Battle of Maharajpore]] in December 1843 during the [[Gwalior Campaign]].<ref name=heath150>Heathcote, p. 150</ref> Promoted to brevet major on 30 April 1844,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20339|page=1454|date=30 April 1844}}</ref> he served as acting adjutant-general of the army at the [[Battle of Mudki]] in December 1845 (where he was twice wounded), at the [[Battle of Ferozeshah]] also in December 1845 and at the [[Battle of Sobraon]] in February 1846 during the [[First Anglo-Sikh War]].<ref name=heath150/> He became deputy adjutant-general of the [[Bengal Army]] in March 1846 and was promoted to brevet [[lieutenant colonel]] on 3 April 1846.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20591|page=1236|date=3 April 1846}}</ref>
[[File:Martens (Henry) The Battle of Goojerat, on the 21st February 1849, hand-coloured aquatint by J. Harris after Marten, image ., R. Ackermann, 1850.jpg|thumb|left|The Battle of Gujrat, at which Grant saw action, during the Second Anglo-Sikh War]]
Grant also took part in the [[Battle of Chillianwala]] in January 1849 and the [[Battle of Gujrat]] in February 1849 during the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]].<ref name=heath150/> He later served under [[Charles James Napier|Sir Charles Napier]] in operations against the [[Pashtun people|Pathan]] tribes in [[Kohat]] in 1850.<ref name=heath151>Heathcote, p. 151</ref> Appointed [[aide-de-camp]] to [[Queen Victoria|the Queen]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21123|page=2133|date=2 August 1850}}</ref> and promoted to brevet [[colonel]] on 2 August 1850, he was further promoted to brevet [[major-general]] on 28 November 1854<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21658|page=431|date=6 February 1855}}</ref> before becoming [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[Madras Army]] with the local rank of [[lieutenant-general]] on 25 January 1856.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21842|page=280|date=25 January 1856}}</ref>

When General [[George Anson (British Army officer, born 1797)|George Anson]] died of [[cholera]] on his march against the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|mutineers]] in May 1857, Grant, as senior commander in India, was summoned to [[Kolkata|Calcutta]] to become acting [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].<ref name=heath151/> From Calcutta he directed the operations against the mutineers, sending forces under [[Henry Havelock]] and [[Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet|James Outram]] for the relief of [[Kanpur|Cawnpore]] and [[siege of Lucknow|Lucknow]].<ref name=heath151/> Although the [[Governor-General of India|Viceroy of India]], [[Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning|Lord Canning]], had recommended that Grant be confirmed in the role of commander-in-chief, [[Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde|Sir Colin Campbell]] had already been nominated as Anson's successor.<ref name=heath151/> So on the arrival of Campbell from England in August 1857, Grant returned to command the Madras Army again.<ref name=heath151/>

Grant returned to England in January 1861 and was promoted to the substantive rank of colonel on 14 November 1861<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22597|page=724|date=11 February 1862}}</ref> and to lieutenant-general on 24 October 1862.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22714|page=1357|date=6 March 1863}}</ref> In February 1864 he was appointed to a [[Royal Commission]] formed to inquire into the best mode of realizing the value of [[Looting|booty of war]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22816|page=553|date=5 February 1864}}</ref> He became [[Governor of Malta]] in 1867 and was promoted to full general on 19 November 1870.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=23683|page=5419|date=29 November 1870}}</ref>

[[File:PatrickGrantBrompton01.jpg|thumb|150px|Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant's grave in [[Brompton Cemetery]], London]]
[[File:Duthil Old Parish Church and Churchyard - FM Grant 02.JPG|thumb|150px|Memorial to Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant in [[Duthil Old Parish Church and Churchyard]]]]
Grant was also colonel of the [[104th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Fusiliers)|104th Regiment of Foot]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22677|page=5242|date=4 November 1862}}</ref> of the [[78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22788|page=5361|date=13 November 1863}}</ref> and then of the [[Royal Horse Guards]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25536|page=5870|date=4 December 1885}}</ref> He was placed on the retired list on 1 October 1877<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24508|page=5455|date=2 October 1877}}</ref> and promoted to [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|field marshal]] on 24 June 1883.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25281|page=5046|date=23 October 1883}}</ref>

Grant also served as governor of the [[Royal Hospital Chelsea]] from February 1874<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24075|page=1645|date=13 March 1874}}</ref> until his death there on 28 March 1895.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26618|page=2354|date=23 April 1895}}</ref> He is buried in [[Brompton Cemetery]], London.<ref name=heath151/> A memorial plaque to Grant can be found in [[Duthil Old Parish Church and Churchyard]], just outside the village of [[Duthil]], [[Inverness-shire]], which now also serves as a Clan Grant Centre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carrbridge.com/index.php/History/churches.html|title=Duthil Church|publisher=Carrbridge|access-date=8 April 2015}}</ref>

==Honours==
Grant's honours included:
*[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] (GCB) – 1 March 1861<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22485|page=1006|date=1 March 1861}}</ref> (KCB – 2 January 1857;<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21955|page=12|date=2 January 1857}}</ref> CB – 3 April 1846<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=20592|page=1279|date=7 April 1846}}</ref>)
*[[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (GCMG) – January 1868<ref name=odnb/>

==Family==
In 1832 Grant married Jane Anne Fraser-Tytler; they had two children, Alexander Charles Grant and then Aldourie Patrick Grant.<ref name=odnb/> Following the death of his first wife, he married Frances Maria Gough, daughter of Field Marshal [[Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough]], in 1844: they had five children (four sons and a daughter).<ref name=odnb/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* {{cite book|last=Heathcote|first=Tony|title=The British Field Marshals, 1736–1997: A Biographical Dictionary |publisher= Leo Cooper|location=Barnsley|year= 1999|isbn= 0-85052-696-5}}

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