Grant’s fa­ther was Charles Grant, Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for In­ver­ness, and East In­dia Com­pa­ny di­rect­or. His fam­i­ly moved from In­dia to Eng­land when Ro­bert was six years old. He at­tend­ed Mag­da­lene Coll­ege, Cam­bridge (BA 1801, MA 1804), and be­came a law­yer in 1807. In 1826, he be­came a mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for In­ver­ness. He be­came Pri­vy Coun­cil­or in 1831, Judge Ad­vo­cate Gen­er­al in 1832, and was knight­ed in 1834. He then re­turned to In­dia to be Gov­er­nor of Bom­bay in 1834. His work ap­peared in the Christ­ian Ob­serv­er (1806-1815), El­li­ott’s Psalms and Hymns (1835), and Sac­red Po­ems, pub­lished post­hu­mous­ly by his bro­ther in 1839, and re­print­ed in 1844 and 1868. His other works in­clude:

• A Sketch of the His­to­ry of the East In­dia Com­pa­ny, 1813
• The Ex­pe­di­en­cy Main­tained of Con­tin­u­ing the Sys­tem by Which the Trade and Gov­ern­ment of In­dia Are Now Reg­u­lat­ed

Sources

Hymns

1. From Olivet’s Se­ques­tered Seats
2. How Deep the Joy, Al­mighty Lord
3. Lord of Earth, Thy Form­ing Hand
4. O Wor­ship the King
5. Savior, When in Dust to Thee
   • By Thy Birth, and by Thy Tears
6. Starry Firm­a­ment on High, The
7. When Ga­ther­ing Clouds Around I View
8. Wherefore Do the Na­tions Rage