3-082-527 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Funeral of Field-Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, 1895. 'Field-Marshal Sir Patrick Grant, who passed away at the age of ninety, on March 28, was assuredly one of the shapers of modern India. As a young Scot he entered the service of the East India Company in 1820. After twenty-three years' performance of peaceful duties, he was called into active warfare, first at the battle of Maharajpore, then in the Sutlej Campaign, and next in the Punjab. Grant as Adjutant-General served through the campaign against the hostile hill tribes of Kohat. A lull followed, and in 1856 he was promoted to the rank of General, and became Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army, the first distinction of this sort conferred on a Company officer. At the commencement of the Indian Mutiny Grant was appointed temporary Commander-in-Chief in India. On the arrival of Sir Colin Campbell, Grant retired to the Madras command, leaving Sir Colin the chance of winning laurels. This self-denying ordinance is one of the brightest pages in Sir Patrick's career. He was for five years Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta, and since 1874 had been Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, where he died'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.