Excerpt from The Life of Charles Grant: Sometime Member of Parliament for Inverness-Shire and Director of the East India Company Little need be said by way of introduction to the Life of Charles Grant. It seems surprising that no complete Biography of the greatest Director of the East India Company has yet been published, though the time during which he occupied a seat on the Direction extended over the most important epoch in the making of British India, and during the whole of that memorable period he exercised a strong and effectual influence over the counsels of the home Government of that day. My most cordial thanks are due to the family for the kind manner in which they have placed at my disposal the voluminous correspondence connected with his life. My chief difficulty has been in the abundance of material, which has necessitated very careful and laborious condensation. Miss Grant, of Hitcham Hall, the granddaughter of Charles Grant, has been most helpful in giving me all the information that she was able to impart. I am likewise much obliged to Sir Robert Grant, his grandson, for kind assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.