Charles grant biography
Charles grant biography
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Grant, Charles ()
British evangelical layman, politician, businessman, philanthropist, and missionary advocate
Grant was born in Scotland and went to India in , where, after some setbacks, he prospered financially, becoming a director of the East India Company.
In he supported David Brown&#;s &#;A Proposal for Establishing a Protestant Mission in Bengal and Bahar.&#; The same year he purchased the Mission Church (or Old Church) in Calcutta, which had belonged to John Kiernander, a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SPCK).
He also supported a mission at Gaumalti, staffed by John Thomas ().
In Grant returned to England and attempted unsuccessfully to encourage the SPCK to take greater interest in India.
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He wrote Observations on the State of Society among Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain in (published by the House of Commons in ). This was a significant missiological apologia for integrating education and Christianity. He supported William Wil