Sir James Augustus Grant, 1st Baronet

Sir James Augustus Grant, 1st Baronet (3 March 1867 – 29 July 1932) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Born in Poplar, London, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Egremont from January 1910 until the constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election. He was then elected as MP for Whitehaven, but lost that seat at the 1922 general election to Labour Party candidate Thomas Gavan Duffy.

Grant was strongly opposed to votes for women saying "We are controlled and worried enough by women."^[1]

He did not contest the 1923 general election, but returned to the House of Commons at the 1924 general election as MP for South Derbyshire. He retired from Parliament at the 1929 election, having been made a baronet, in July 1926, of Househill, Nairn.^[2] The baronetcy became extinct on his death in Gloucester in 1932, aged 65.

References

Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election results 1918-1949 (3rd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. ISBN 0-900178-06-X.
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Hugh Fullerton	Member of Parliament for Egremont 1910–1918	Constituency abolished
Preceded by Thomas Richardson	Member of Parliament for Whitehaven 1918–1922	Succeeded by Thomas Gavan Duffy
Preceded by Henry Dubs Lorimer	Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire 1924–1929	Succeeded by David Graham Pole
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Househill, Nairn) 1926–1932	extinct

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