P_10433_2493 – Sir Alexander Grant
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Died: Unknown
Sir Alexander Grant (1707-1772), London merchant and slave-owner and MP, co-owner of six slaving voyages from London, shown as the sole owner of a seventh and co-owner of one further slaving voyage from Charleston. Grant was also co-owner with a 3/9ths share of the slave-trading complex at Bance Island in the Sierra Leone River from 1748 until his death, during which time more than 12,000 captive African people were shipped through it. One of Hancock’s Citizens of the World. He inherited in 1755 the baronetcy he had arranged to revive for his father. His ‘property’ in Jamaica, including enslaved people, was valued at over £100,000 local currency, while he also left extensive estates in Scotland, both passing to his brother Sir Ludovic Grant 6th bart. and then to Ludovoc’s Grant son Sir Alexander Grant 7th bart. of Dalvey.