The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

TILE NEW G.C.B. AND K.C.B.

Major-General Sir James Hope Grant, K.C.8., whose
elevation to the highest rank of the Order of the Bath ap-
peared in the Gazette of Saturday in our columns, is the
fifth son of the late Francis Grant, Esq., of Kilgraeton and
Pitcaithly, North Britain, the head of one of the best of the
old "county families" of Perthshire ; his mother was Anne,
eldest daughter of Robert Oliphant, Esq., of Rossie, Post-
master -General of Scotland. He was born on the 18th of
January, 1808, and entered the army as cornet in 1826.
He served in China under the late Lord Saltoun, and sub-
sequently in India under Lords Gough and Hardinge. Ho
was present at the battle of Sabraon, where he commanded
the 9th Lancers, as also in the Punjab in 1858-9. He was
also present at the engagements of Ramnuggur, Chilian-
wallah, and Goojerat, and took an active part in the sup-
pression of the India mutiny in 1857-8, for his services on
which occasion he was made a Knight Commander of
the Order of the Bath. He became a major-
general in the army in 1858. His recent ser-
vices in China are too well known to our readers
to need being repeated here. Sir James, according
to the County Families, married in 1847 Ellen, daughter of
Mr. B. Tayler.—Rear-Admiral J. Hope, C. 8., of Carriden,
county Linlithgow, who is now elevated, for his services in
China, from the second to the first division of the same most
honourable order, is the only son of the late Rear-Adcairal
Sir G. Johnstone -Hope, K.C.B. (son of the Hon. C. Hope-
Vere, of Craigio-hall, and grandson of the first Earl of
Hopetoun), by his first wife, the Lady Jemima Hope-John-
stone, sth daughter of James, 3d Earl of Hopetoun. He was
born on the 3d March, 1808, and married in August, 1838,
the Hon. Frederica Eliza Kinnaird, second daughter of
Charles, eight Lord Kinnaird in the Peerage of Scotland,
but was left a widower in May, 1856. He entered the
Royal Naval College in 1820, joined his first ship in 1822,
aad having served on the West Indian and Mediterranean
stations was promoted to lieutenant in 1827. He escorted
Lord William Bentinck to India in 1828, became flag-lieu..
tenant to the late Admiral Lord Northesk in the follow-
ing year, and subsequently was employed on the West
Indian and North American stations in command of the
Racer, 16. He obtained the rank of Captain in 1838, and
in November, 1845, while in command of the Firebrand
steam-frigate, he enacted a conspicuous part in the battle of
Parana, where a hard day's fighting resulted in the de-
struction by the combined squadrons of England and France
of four heavy batteries belonging to General Roses at Punta
Obligado, as also of a schooner carrying 6 guns, and of 24
vessels chained across the river. "On that occasion having
volunteered," says O'Byrne in his " Naval Biography,"
" Captain Hope gallantly pulled up in his boat and cut the
chain which impeded the upward progress of the allies. At
the close of the action he landed as aide-de-camp to the late
Captain Sir Charles Hotham, the senior British officer,
and assisted in giving the coup de pace to the defeat of the
enemy, whose numbers originally consisted of 3,500 men,
in cavalry, infantry, and artillery, and whose batteries had
mounted 22 pieces of ordnance." As a reward for his
bravery on this occasion he was nominated a Companion
of the Bath in April, 1846.