General Sir Henry Fane Grant, (13 December 1848 – 22 April 1919) was a British Army officer who commanded the 5th Division from 1903 to 1906. He was Governor of Malta from 1907 to 1909.
Military career Born the son of General Sir Patrick Grant, Grant was commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1868 and took part in the Nile Expedition in 1884.Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He became Assistant Adjutant-General in Bengal in 1891, Inspector-General of Cavalry in India in 1893,The county families of the United Kingdom, or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland (Volume ed.59, yr.1919) by Edward Walford, p.396 and Inspector of Cavalry in the United Kingdom in 1898.Army Commands
He went on to be a major general on the staff and was Major General Leslie Rundle's successor as general officer commanding (GOC) of the 5th Division, part of the 2nd Army Corps, on 10 November 1903. He was later governor of Malta in 1907 before he retired from the army in 1909.
In retirement Grant, promoted on 4 September 1912 to general, became lieutenant of the Tower of London. In April 1919, he was killed while out rabbit-shooting in Scotland,Northern Territory Times and Gazette, 22 November 1919 and is commemorated by a memorial tablet at Duthil Church near Carrbridge.Carrbridge Community
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