Patrick Grant (Australian politician)
Patrick Grant (1795−14 May 1855) was an English businessman who was an Australian politician and Police Magistrate. He was the proprietor of the Sun, the True Sun.
Biography[edit]
Grant was the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Grant and Jane Hannay.
Politician Henry Hunt brought a libel action against Grant, the True Sun's proprietor, publisher John Bell, and printer John Ager for an article published on 18 December 1832; however, Hunt was awarded damages of one farthing.[1][2] Grant, Bell and Ager were prosecuted, convicted and confined in 1834 to the King's Bench Prison for advocating tax resistance against the British government's window tax.[3][4][5][6] He was later pardoned.
He was a police magistrate at Maitland, in the Hunter Valley and sub editor of the Sydney Gazette. In 1845 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council; this election was voided, but he was re-elected later that year and served until 1848.[7]
Grant subsequently moved to Redcastle, Scotland and died in London on 16 October 1855 (aged 59–60).[8]
Marriage and issue[edit]
Patrick was married to Catherine Sophia Grant, the daughter of Charles Grant and Jane Fraser, they are known to have had the following known issue:[9]
- Alexander Ronald Grant, Canon of Ely
- Robert Grant
- Charles Grant (died 1876)
- Julia Grant
- Matilda Grant
- Flora Sophia Grant
References[edit]
- ^ Timperley, Charles Henry (1839). "libel suit against the True Sun". A Dictionary of Printers and Printing. p. 930.
- ^ "Mr. Henry Hunt, having brought an action against the printer". The Spectator. 7 December 1833.
- ^ PROSECUTION OF THE TRUE SUN. (Hansard, 23 July 1834)
- ^ The Whigs and the Press: Report of the Trial of the Proprietors and Printer of the True Sun, for Recommending Non-Payment of the Assessment Taxes: Upon an Ex-officio Information Filed by His Majesty's Attorney-General. True Sun Office. 1834.
- ^ "action brought against the True Sun". The Spectator. 8 June 1833.
- ^ "The Court of King's Bench". The Spectator. 8 February 1834.
- ^ "Mr Patrick Grant". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
- ^ "Death". Sydney Morning Herald. 16 October 1855. p. 8. Retrieved 13 October 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ Grant, Francis J. Grants of Corrimony. T. & J. Manson, 1895. p. 42.
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