Biographical Register: G
GRANT, Charles (d.1823)
Lachlan Macquarie visited Grant immediately after his return to London in 1807 with messages and commissions from Samuel Manesty in Basra. At that time he was Deputy Chairman of the East India Company Directors.
Periods of Service as an HEIC Director: 30 May 1794-1795, 1797-1800, 1802-1803, 1804-1805 [Deputy Chairman], 1805-1806 [Chairman], 1807-1808 [Deputy Chairman], 1808-1809 [Deputy Chairman], 1809-1810 [Chairman], 1812, 1815-1816 [Chairman], 1817-1820, 1822-1823. Number of seasons elected as Chairman: three (3); as Deputy Chairman: three (3) - note that the year of election to the Court of Directors (and the year of office) was from April to the following April.
Died: October 1823.
Sources: Dodwell and Miles. Alphabetical List of the Honourable East India Company's Bombay Civil Servants from the Year 1798 to the Year 1839. London: Longman, Orme, Brown and Co., 1839 pp. xix-xxii; Philips, C. H and Philips, D. "Alphabetical List of Directors of the East India Company from 1758 to 1858." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 1941 p.330.
GUDOVICH, Count I. V. (1741-1820): Count Goodowich
Governor-General of Teflis.
Military Commander in Georgia and Dagestan (1806), Field Marshall-General (1807); Governor-General of Tambov, Kiev, Podol'sk and, finally, Moscow (1809-1812); Member of the State Council, Senator (1809).
Source: personal communication Y. Aksenov [2005].
GUR'EV, Gavrila Petrovich.
Major General (1804); Colonel, Commander of Ufa (Ufimsky) Musketeer Regiment (1803-1804), Commander-in-Chief of Sevastopol Musketeer (Infantry) Regiment (1804-1812). In 1805 the Sevastopol Regiment was moved to the Caucasus Division to undergo general adjustment that seemed to have been a clear response to Russia's disastrous defeat at Austerlitz, in 1805, and to have been designed to improve preparedness in any future conflict with France The decrees establishing the new structure were announced between May and August 1806, and the reorganization was extended to the Caucasus in February 1807.
Source: personal communication Y. Aksenov [2005]
