George Grant

Liverpool merchant, long-term partner of John Gladstone having joined him as a clerk in 1805. George Grant died in 1862, leaving £25,000.

1. Geo. Grant appears as partner of Robertson Gladstone et al., in Calcutta commission merchants Gladstone, Hay, Wyllie and Co. George Grant retired from another partnership with Archibald Kelso and Robertson Gladstone trading at Liverpool as Gladstone & Company 1st May 1856.  

2. Advertisement for creditors of George Grant of Gambier Terrace Liverpool who died 27/08/1862, executors Sir Thomas Gladstone, Robertson Gladstone and Archibald Kelso.

S.G. Checkland, The Gladstones: a family biography p. 45; National Probate Calendar 1862.

1. London Gazette, Issue 20608, 26/05/1846, p. 1958, retirement of Andrew Hay; London Gazette, Issue 21882, 09/05/1856, p. 1737.

2. London Gazette, Issue 22725, 10/04/1863, p. 1989.