A William IV oil on canvas hatchment, bearing the arms of Si...

Hammer

£1,600

A William IV oil on canvas hatchment, bearing the arms of Sir Colquhoun Grant (1772-1835), 159 x 159cm

Provenance- Brede Place, East Sussex, a former residence of the Frewen family from 1712-1936
Lieutenant General Sir John Colquhoun Grant KCB GCH (1772-1835) was a British soldier. Grant was a groom of the bedchamber to Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, later King of Hanover. He was reputed to have been the strongest man in the British Army, and was given the nickname "The Black Giant." He fought in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, Siege of Seringapatam, French Revolutionary Wars,
and Napoleonic Wars- Battle of Sahagún, Battle of Vitoria, Battle of Waterloo. He was appointed colonel of the 12th (The Prince of Wales's) Royal Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers) in 1825. He transferred to the 15th (The King's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Hussars) in 1827, succeeding the Duke of Cumberland, a post he held until his death in 1835. He had married Marcia, daughter of the Reverend J. Richards, of Long Bredy, Dorset. Their only surviving child, Marcia, eloped with Whig politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan in May 1835.
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