{{Short description|British diplomat and politician}} {{EngvarB|date=September 2017}} {{for|the Florida politician|Alfred Grant (politician)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox person | name = Sir Hamilton Grant, Bt. | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI|KCIE}} | image = 1922 Sir Hamilton Grant.jpg | caption = Grant in 1922. | birth_name = Alfred Hamilton Grant | birth_date = {{Birth date|1872|06|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|01|23|1872|06|12|df=yes}} | death_place = London, England | other_names = | known_for = negotiating 1919 Peace Treaty with Afghanistan | occupation = British Civil Servant in India | relatives = | spouse = | footnotes = }}
'''Sir Alfred Hamilton Grant, 12th Baronet''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI|KCIE}} (12 June 1872 – 23 January 1937), known as '''Hamilton Grant''', and from 1918 as '''Sir Hamilton Grant''', was a British diplomat who served primarily in India. He was also briefly a Liberal Party politician.
==Background== Grant was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 12 June 1872, the son of Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet. He was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh and Balliol College, Oxford. While at Oxford he won a Rugby football blue. In 1896 he married Mabel Bessie Lovett. The marriage produced two children.<ref>Burke's Peerage and Baronetage</ref> In 1910, Mabel died. In 1914, he married Margaret Lucia Cochran of Ashkirk, Selkirkshire. That marriage also produced two children. Following the death of his brother he succeeded to the title of 12th Baronet Grant of Dalvey on 11 February 1936.<ref>‘GRANT, Sir (Alfred) Hamilton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U210314, accessed 26 March 2014]</ref>
==Diplomatic service== In 1895 Grant entered the Indian Civil Service. He was Deputy Commissioner of various Frontier districts and Secretary to Frontier Administration. In 1904 he accompanied the Dane Mission to Kabul. In 1908 he was awarded a Companion of the Indian Empire. In 1914 he was appointed Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, serving for 5 years. In 1915 he was awarded a Companion of the Star of India. In 1918 he was awarded a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire. In 1919, after the Third Anglo-Afghan War, he was the Chief Delegate at the Rawalpindi Conference which ended the British protectorate of Afghanistan.<ref>Rhea Talley Stewart, Fire in Afghanistan, 1914-1929, pp. 69-96</ref> He served as the Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province of British India from 1919 until 1921.<ref>[http://rulers.org/indprov.html Provinces of British India].</ref> In 1922 he was awarded a Knight Commander of the Star of India.<ref>‘GRANT, Sir (Alfred) Hamilton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U210314, accessed 26 March 2014]</ref>
==Political activity== In 1922 Grant left India and returned to Britain. He decided to pursue a political career and was chosen as Liberal candidate for Roxburgh and Selkirk where his wife was from. At the time, the Liberals were split between supporters of H. H. Asquith and supporters of Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Grant was a supporter of Asquith and the Roxburgh seat was held by a supporter of Lloyd George. At the general election held that year, the other parties left the seat for the two Liberal candidates and Grant was narrowly defeated; {{Election box begin | title=General Election 1922: Roxburgh & Selkirk <ref>The Times, 17 November 1922</ref> Electorate 32,904}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) |candidate = Sir Thomas Henderson |votes = 10,356 |percentage =51.7 |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Liberal Party (UK) |candidate = '''Sir Alfred Hamilton Grant''' |votes = 9,698 |percentage =48.3 |change =n/a }} {{Election box majority| |votes = 658 |percentage = 3.4 |change = }} {{Election box turnout| |votes = 20,054 |percentage = 60.9 |change = }} {{Election box hold with party link| |winner = National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) |swing = n/a }} {{Election box end}} He did not stand for parliament again.
==Business activity== Grant was a Director of Anglo-Huronian, Ltd, Associated Mining and Finance Co., Ltd, Northern Rhodesia Co., Ltd, General Co-operative Investment Trust, Ltd and HE Proprietary Ltd.<ref>‘GRANT, Sir (Alfred) Hamilton’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U210314, accessed 26 March 2014]</ref>
==External links== Grant at the National Portrait Gallery: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp62247/sir-alfred-hamilton-grant-12th-bt
{{s-start}} {{s-gov}} {{succession box | title=Chief Commissioner of the<br>North-West Frontier Province | before=Sir George Roos-Keppel | after=Sir John Loader Maffey | years=10 September 1919 – 8 March 1921}} {{s-reg|sct-bt}} {{succession box | title=Baronet<br />'''(of Dalvey)''' | years=1936–1937 | before=Ludovic James Grant | after= Duncan Alexander Grant }} {{s-end}}
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