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Accession number	912L : 2090/3
Transcription	Like Havelock , he made his way without in terest , and for long years a very tedious journey it was . The youngest son of the Laird of Kilgraston , in Perthshire - the President of the Royal Academy is his elder brother - James Hope Grant was born in 1808 , and in 1826 he received his first commission as cornet , in that gallant regiment the 9th Lancers . The corps he joined while as yet his moustache was not grown , he never quitted until at length in 1858 , after a service with the regiment of thirty - two years , he was promoted it may be said , on the field of battle - to the rank of Major - General . In 1865 he came back to the old regiment as its colonel , and he died as he had lived , one of the " old 9th . " His service in the field was wholly in the East , and perhaps therefore his name does not come so freely to the lips of many as the names of chiefs who gained renown for themselves in the Crimean war . Nevertheless , his field service was both varied and glorious , and he contributed only less than two or three men to the restoration of our grip on our Eastern Empire when the great mutiny so roughly challenged that hold . & Few people probably remember with much detail the doings of the " Expeditionary Land Force " under Sir Hugh Gough , which in the summer of 1842 , disembarked from the fleet in the Yang - tse - Keang , and at tacked and stormed the Chinese city of Chin - Kean - foo . One brigade of this force was commanded by Lord Saltoun , the stubborn de fender of the wood and orchard of Hougomont . The brigade - major of Lord Saltoun's command was Captain Grant , of the 9th Lancers , who here first saw fighting . Brilliant little exploit as was the storm of the town and the capture of the adjacent entrenched camp , it was not a very serious business , for the total British loss in killed , wounded , and missing was but 145. On the ter mination of hostilities Grant rejoined his regi ment , which had gone out to India , and as its major took his fair share in more than one of Gough's " cold steel " battles against the indomitable Sikhs . That mass of men , the front of which " bristled with hostile bayonets which had already gathered on the right bank of the Sutlej , when Sir Henry Hardinge , the hero of Albuera , landed in India as the successor of Ellenborough , crossed the stream , and within the month Moodkee had been fought , and the two - days ' battle of Ferozeshunder , with the " night of horrors " in tervening . Aliwal was a more decisive victory , and in the following month ( 10th February , 1846 ) was fought the battle of Sobraon , at which Major Grant was present . This desperate combat , tle carnage in which was such as had not been seen . in India since the field of Paniput , was in & great measure battle of the bayonet , and the cavalry had but 1ttle chance of giving a helping hand , except toward the last , when the Sikh masses were struggling frantically for the crossing of the Sutlej . When the second Sikh war broke out in 1848 , Gough found himself at the head of a fine army , among the cavalry belonging to which was the 9th Lancers . But the campaign opened in auspiciously , if gloriously , for the British Cavalry . The pilgrim may still , haply , find three tombs near the Inambarah at Ramnuggur , from the summit of which Runjeet Singh was wont to review his troops . In one lies Cureton , a Boldier who from a " ranker " had risen by dint of conduct and valour all through the Penin sula and at Waterloo to the command of a cavalry brigade ; another is the sepulchre of gal lant Will Havelock , the chivalrous chief of the 14th Light , " who rode here to his death as cheerily as he had gone at the abatis in the Bidassoa ; in the third lies one of his subalterns , young Fitzgerald , the son of the hero of Seeta buldee . Who shall say what constitutes rashness in a cavalry leader ? That order to charge , which would have been lauded as heroism in Anglesey , or Murat , or Caulaincourt , has in William Havelock's case been called recklessness , simply because it did not succeed . At Chil lianwallah in the following year the 9th Lancers , which Grant by this time commanded , had the misfortune to belong to Pope's brigade . The story of that gloomy day need not be dwelt upon . The chief courts his fate who advances a cavalry brigade deployed into a dense forest , without a skirmisher thrown forward , or a reserve second line or supporting column behind . With what persistent constancy of self - abnegation the officers strove to stem the tide of retreat , and to make head against the fierce hostile onslaught , is matter of history , and furnishes the only relief to a very sombre picture . But the victory of Goojerat was to restore the weakened prestige of British arms , and to demon strate that the road to the front welcomer to British cavalry than that to the rear . That long cannonade , of which the most war experienced officers in the army had witnessed a parallel for magnificence and effect , ad done its work , and the constancy of the soon was never Kh lsa soldiery had been shaken . Penny , with the brigade which , under Godby , had snatched laurels out of the cypresses of Chillianwallah , had carried at the bayonet point the larger village which was the key of the Sikh position . The smaller village had been swept free of defenders by the gallantry of Franks , and the ardent courage of his brave 10th . The Sikh infantry were everywhere sullenly falling back , and the day seemed won . But Shere Sing was a man who was not to be beaten till he had exhausted every resource . With the rapid fury of a moun tain torrent the Sikh cavalry , together with 1,500 Afghan horse under Akram Khan , the son of Dost Mahomed , thundered down upon the flank and rear of the British cavalry .. Thackwell , a soldier whose pulses were as calm as his valour was ardent , set in array against them Malcolm's Seinde Horse , with the 9th Lancers , under Grant , in immediate support . The combat was short , sharp , and decisive ; and while the thwarted Khalsa sowars rode back to swell the rout of their comrades of the infantry , there followed them relentlessly the British horsemen . Onward these rushed , dispersing , riding over , and trampling down in their resistless career the flying and scattered Sikh soldiery , capturing guns and waggons , and converting the discomfited enemy into a shapeless mass of fugitives . It was not till they had ridden fifteen miles beyond Goojerat that they at length drew rein , by which time the hemy of Shere Sing was a wreck , deprived of its amp , its standards , and fifty - three pieces of cannon . The Punjab pacified and duly annexed , there followed for Grant several years of quiet regi mental duty . He had been made a lieutenant colone ! by brevet for his services in the Sikh wars ; in 1850 there came to him the substantive it was Under his command the 9th Lancers held well their place as one of the smartest regiments in the service , a charter which the regiment has continued to maintain under Little , Fiennes , Bad Marshall , its present chief . When the Indian Mutiny broke out in 1857 , quartered at Umballa , and formed part of t slender column which marched against Dlhi . Grant was made cavalry brigadier , and never afterwards reverted to regimental duty . Ve found his way into action with characteristic alacrity at Budlee - ka - Serai , where with the 9th Lancers and Turner's and Tombs ' batteries he urned the flank of the mutineers , and helped to rive them into Delhi . Then commenced the long , veary siege - weary though full of so much dramatic variety . Of all this period Sir Hope has left his own record in the journal which was Sublished in 1878 under the editorship of Captain Henry Knollys , R.A. Modesty , simple , frank straightforwardness , ceaseless energy of activity , wise caution under strong temptation to be rash , the cool confronting of danger as an ordinary matter of course , a keen sense of quiet fun , and a fervent yet undemonstrative piety - these are the characteristics of its author which are to be gathered from the pages of this journal . The following is a sample of its style > As long as daylight lasted we drove the rebels back , but when darkness ensued they got round our flanks and two of my guns were in the greatest jeopardy . I therefore collected a few men together and charged the enemy . A sepoy within five yards of me fired at my horse , and put a bullet through his body close to my leg . It was singular he did not aim at me ; but in all probability he thought it best to make sure of killing the horse , and that then to a certainty the rider would fall into his hands . I felt that my poor charger had received his death - wound , yet he galloped on fifty yards through the throng of rebels , and then dropped down dead . I was in rather an awkward predicament - unhorsed , surrounded by the enemy , and owing to the darkness ignorant in which direction to proceed - when my orderly , a native sowar of the 4th Irregulars , by name Rooper . Khan , rode up to me , and said , " Take my horse - it is your only chance of safety . " I could not but admire his fine con duct . He was a Hindostanee Mussulman , belonging to a regiment the greater part of which had mutinied ; and it would have been easy for him to have killed me and gone over to the enemy ; but he behaved nobly and was ready to save my life at the risk of his own . I re fused his offer ; but , taking a firm grasp of his horse's tail , I told Rooper Khan to drag me out of the crowd . This he performed successfully and with great courage . There were likewise two men of the 9th Lancers , who behaved with great gallantry , Thomas Handcock and John Purcell . They stuck to me during the fight without consulting their own safety ; " he latter had his horse killed under him about the same time I lost my own ; and Handcock seeing me dismounted in the midst of my foes earnestly besought me to take his charger .. . I don't think I ever felt so dead beat before . The weather was fearfully hot . I threw myself exhausted on the ground , and the only thing which revived me was a glass of beer given me by Lieutenant Drummond . The cavalry brigade under Grant took an important share in the final operations which culminated in the fall of Delhi . On the day of the assault it covered the otherwise unprotected batteries ; and when the failure of the attack or the Lahore Bastion encouraged the enemy to assume the offensive , it was the cavalry brigade , with the artillery attached to it , which baulked their effort , although with a loss proportionally more severe than any that befell our soldiers throughout the quelling of the mutiny . Delhi having fallen , Brigadier Grant was sent to assume the command of a movable column which had been operating in the Agra district under the command of Colonel Greathed . This column presently formed part of the force with which Sir Coli Campbell effected the relief of Lucknow , and in that enterprise Brigadier - General Grant , as second a >> of command , had an important share . He was the first to greet General Havelock in the Mori Mahal , when the connecting link was achieved between the relieving and the beleaguered forces ; and the subsequent meeting of the four generals in the Mess - house , which Garnet Wolseley had stormed , is familiar to many through the engraving of Mr. Jones Barker's well known picture . General Grant at once betook himself to the assistance of the women of the Residency garrison . He tells us of one little girl who ran up to her mother exclaiming , " Oh , Mamma , there's a loaf of bread on the table . I'm certain of it ; I saw it with my own eyes ! " and of " a gentle delicate - looking lady , " who was urgent in her requisition for cheese . After much effort he procured a large piece of high flavoure strong - smelling , greasy - looking cheese , " and wrapped up in a dirty old newspaper ; he remarks naïvely- " To the commander of fine force relieving 8 large number of his countrywomen from a terrible imprison ment , and under the influence of highly - wrought feelings of sublimity , it was rather a come down both in feeling and in sentiment , to be the bearer of this nasty strong cheese . " Returning to commanded Cawnpore with the army , Grant the cavalry brigade in the battle in which Campbell punished the Gwalior contingent for the audacity with which it had pressed Windham , and two days after marched out in command of the column which after a fight at Serai Ghat destroyed Nana Sahib's Palace of Bithoor , and captured the artillery of the Gwalior contingent . From this time until the final subjugation the mutiny , Hope Grant's life may be described in a very short sentence . He was always in the saddle , and with his sword drawn . He shared in the final capture of Lucknow , he scoured Oude in innumerable raids , he fought in countless skir mishes , broke up band after band of the rebels , and captured fort after fort . He never sus tained a reverse , because although he never missed a chance , he never allowed his ardour to outweigh his caution ; and when some civilian - a fire - eater at his desk - thought proper to criticise the mili tary carefulness of a veteran soldier , Sir Colin " let him have it " in the following biting language " . is pleased to criminate the officers for adhering to the rules of their pro fession , a departure from which is an unfailing source of disaster ; and he sneers at the caution , which , combined as it is in the case of Sir Hope Grant , with extraordinary personal courage , is a more certain source of victory than almost any quality which can be named . Long before the mutiny was finally quenched , Brigadier - General Grant had been nominated a K.C.B. , and in February , 1858 , he was raised to the rank of Major General as a reward for his " eminent services . " When the mutiny ended the whole force in Oude was under his command , and he had at least 100 miles of the Nepaul frontier under his wardership to restrain the rebel fugitives from incursions from the Terai . In the end of 1859 he was nominated to the command of the British force about to pro ceed to China , to co - operate with the French in repairing the disaster which had been suffered in the attack on the Taku Forts . He was gazetted a Lieutenant - General , and sailed for China from Calcutta in February , 1860 . or was The force under General Sir Hope Grant's com mand in China amounted to 14,000 of all ranks , and Wolseley affirms with truth that " England had never before opened a campaign with such a well - organized or a more efficient force . Nothing that could add to the health or comfort of the men was neglected , and all that talent ability could do to render an army perfect was provided for . " The disembarkation made at Peytang , the successful battle of Sinho fought , and the enemy's works at Tang - koo seized upon and converted into a position whence was made the assault on the Taku Forts . The storming of the first fort was cir an exploit , the cumstances of which have never received the at It was tention which they merited . between French and English who should be first on the parapet . A lithe Frenchman was swiftest , and was shot dead while he waved the tricolour and led the cheering . The Frenchman had scarcely fallen when young Chaplain , of the 67th , was on the parapet and spreading out to the breeze the Queen's colour of his regi ment . Of the battles at Chang - kia - wan and Pa - le - cheaou it is not necessary to speak in detail , and needless to say that they were vic tories . Then followed the advance on Pekin , the burning of the Summer Palace , and the peace which concluded one of the most successful " little wars " in which we have ever engaged . For his services in this war Sir Hope Grant a race was appointed a G.C.B. , and received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament . He was also made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour by the Emperor of the French . On his return from China he was nominated to the post of Com mander - in Chief of the Madras Army ; in 1865 he returned to England , where he was appointed eneral at the orse Guards ; Quartermaster in 1870 he was selected for the command at Alder shot , in succession to General Scarlett , which post he held at the time of his death . " Stats " EDINBURGH , MONDAY , March 15 , 1876 . " Scotsman There and THE funeral of General Sir Hope Grant took place in Edinburgh on Saturday . The body arrived by train from London early in the morning , and was removed to the Douglas Hotel . it remained until shortly after eleven o'clock , when the funeral was formed procession proceeded to the Grange Cemetery . All the soldiers in garrison , together with a detach ment of the 9th Lancers ( the deceased general's regiment ) and a large body of volunteers were in the procession . There were also present many civilian friends of the deceased , several general officers , and the Lord Provost and Corporation . The procession moved along Princes ' Street , Melville by the Lothian Road , along the Drive and Argyle Place to the cemetery , where the interment took place . The spectacle was imposing , and brought out a very large number of spectators . Unfortunately a serious and fatal accident took place . At the corner of Argyle Flace some persons had perched themselves upon the roof of a mason's shed . Just as the procession was passing , this roof gave way , and frightened some of the horses of the Dragoons . The prancing of these caused the crowd to press on to the railings of an area opposite . These railings gave way , and a number of persons fell into the area . One woman sustained injuries from which she died in a short time , and several other persons were seriously injured . FUNERAL OF GENERAL SIRJ . HOPE GRANT . EDINBURGH has witnessed many notable funerals , but never perhaps one more imposing than that of Saturday , in which befitting honour was paid to a distinguished soldier whom any people might well be proud to claim as a countryman . The scion of an old Scotch house , Sir J. Hope Grant , after a career in which he helped to maintain the integrity of the British Empire , and which in due course led to high distinction as the reward of brave and skilful con duct , bethought him in his later years of seeking his last resting - place in the soil which gave him birth . His wish has been fulfilled in a public demonstration combining the simplicity proper to a soldier's obse quies with the pomp and circumstance which be seemed the expression of a national regret . The whole military force readily available was mustered for the occasion , together with a due representation of our citizen soldiery ; the metropolitan corporation attended in its official capacity ; while the general community turned out in tens of thousands to watch . the ceremonial with which the remains of one of Scotland's worthiest sons were committed to ground already hallowed by the dust of several eminent Scotchmen . The On Friday evening , the body of the late General was removed from the London residence of his niece , the Baroness Gray , to King's Cross Station for con veyance to Edinburgh by the 8.30 r.M. train . coffin was under the charge of Captain Knollys , R. A. , and there also travelled with the train Lady Hope Grant , Lady Edwards , Miss Grant of Kilgraston , Miss Taylor , Miss Eyre , Mr Charles Grant , Lieut. Colonel Grant , and other gentlemen who proposed to attend the funeral . The train , which was 20 minutes late at Berwick - on - Tweed , reached the Waverley Station at 6.25 A.M. , and although the hour was thus early , some 200 people or so , prin cipally working men and young lads , were waiting to see its arrival . On the train drawing up at the Waverley platform the coffin was at once re moved from the covered van in which it had been brought from London to a plain hearse drawn by two black horses , and conveyed to the Douglas Hotel , St Andrew Square . The London party and their attendants drove thither in cabs . At the door of the Douglas the crowd again assembled eager to catch a glimpse of the coffin as it was carried into the hotel . In the coffee - room a bier , suitably draped in black , had been set , and upon it the coffin was placed . The body of the deceased General , it may be here stated , was enclosed in a three - fold coffin , consisting of an inner shell , a lead coffin , and a beautifully polished oaken coffin with gilt handles and mountings . On the lid were a monogram and laurel wreath , and the plate bore the following inscription : General Sir JAMES HOPE GRANT , G.C.B. , Commander of Her Majesty's Forces at Aldershot . Born 22d July 1809 . Died 7th March 1875 . As a last token of regard for the memory of the departed , beautiful wreaths , composed of camelias , evergreens , and immortelles had been forwarded by Lady Elcho . Dowager Lady Ruthven . Mrs Malcolm , Sir Henry Wilmott and Sir John Richardson , and a laurel wreath , worthily due to the memory of the departed hero , was , we believe , sent by a number of his brother officers . These were all placed on the coffin as it lay in the hotel , as were also General Hope Grant's plumed hat and sword , and a velvet cushion on which were displayed his orders and medals the latter telling the story of labours in his country's cause in China in 1842 , in the Sikh war at Chillianwallah and Goojerat ; again in India at Delhi and Lucknow , and in China in 1860 at Pekin and the Takui Forts . formed Half - past ten was the hour at which the troops under orders to take part in the funeral were to meet in St Andrew Square . The detachment of the 9th Lancers - of which regiment the late general was colonel consisting of twenty - one men , under the command of Captain Cleland , who had arrived from Canterbury on the previous day for the purpose of being present at the funeral , were early on the ground , and with their some what showy uniform and picturesque weapons , were the Anon the cynosure of all eyes . burnished helmets and nodding plumes of the 1st Royal Dragoons were seen advancing along South St Andrew Street , closely followed by the 1st Royal Scots Infantry from the Castle , the former being under the command of Lieutenant - Colonel Ainslie , and the latter under Lieutenant - Colonel M'Gwire . The Artillery from Leith Fort , under their battery Colonel C. F. Young , with of Armstrong guns , entered the Square from the north side , and in a few minutes afterwards the Queen's Edinburgh Brigade of Volunteers , headed by Lieutenant - Colonel J. H. A. Macdonald , made their appearance . As the different regiments arrived , they took up without delay the positions which had been assigned to them by the Assistant Adjutant - General ( Colonel Pea cocke . ) The Lancers in line in front of the door of the Douglas Hotel ; the Dragoons occupied the south - east side of the Square and South St Andrew Street ; the 1st Royal Scots and Q.E.R , Volunteers were drawn up in line side of the east railings - the 1st Royal Scots to the south , the Volunteers to the north , while the Artillery took up a position on the north - east side of the square , but were somewhat hidden from view by the great gathering of people that now began to assemble . By the order posted on Friday the men were enjoined to wear their coats and cloaks if the day was wet ; but , fortunately , although the early morning was dull and raw , with an occasional shower of sleet , the weather cleared up sufficiently before the men left quarters to enable them to dispense with their overcoats and appear in review order . The scene in the was exceedingly picturesque ; but the flags half - mast high which floated over the hotel , and which could be seen waving in the breeze above the City Chambers and other buildings ; the draped colours of the military , the crape bands on the left arm of the officers , and the quiet and subdued way in which the different orders were given , indicated at once the sorrowful nature of the service in which the troops were about to engage . The parade statis tics showed that there were present of the Royal Scots 14 officers and 370 rank and file ; of the Dragoons , 250 officers and men ; of the Volunteers , 348 officers and A full battery of artillery , with their six Armstrong guns , was also present , the troops thus numbering in all about 1100. The National , British Linen , and Royal Banks closed at ten o'clock , and soon thereafter their balconies and windows , as well as every other window in the Square , were filled with spectators , principally ladies and children . Numbers of adventurous persons also got upon the roofs of the houses ; a considerable sprinkling of people found their way into the gardens , while the spaces on the north - east and south - east sides of the square unoccupied by the troops were crowded with sightseers , the majority being of the class who can stand a little pressure without being put to much inconvenience thereby . square men . with As eleven o'clock drew near , the hour at which the body was to be removed the officers representing vari ous branches of the service , were drawn up in line on the pavement a little to the north of the principal entrance of the hotel ; beyond them were the Lord Provost , Magistrates , and Council , the Town Clerk , and City Chamberlain in their official robes , mar shalled by Mr Macpherson , chief city officer , the other officers , and headed by draped halberts , and behind the civic authori ties were grouped the gentlemen , to the number of fifty or thereabouts , who had been furnished with funeral cards . It was at first intended that the first part of the Church of England Burial Service should be read in the hotel ; but this arrangement was de parted from , as it was thought more desirable that the whole of it should be read in the churchyard . Shortly after eleven o'clock , a gun carriage , drawn by six horses , was brought to the door of the hotel , and ten men of the 9th Lancers were told off to The pallbearers formed in line " lift " the body . on each side of the entrance ; the troops were brought to " Attention , " and as the Lancers appeared at the door carrying out the coffin shoulder high , a general salute was given . The coffin having been carefully placed on the gun carriage , the Union Jack was thrown over it , and on the lid were laid the plumed hat and sword of the deceased General , the wreaths previously mentioned , and the velvet cushion on which were displayed his orders and medals . A few minutes were occupied in securing these , so as to prevent their falling off ; then Lady Grant and the other ladies of the party were con ducted to their carriages , and the procession started in the following order : Advance Guard of Royal Dragoons . Royal Dragoons . 1st Royal Scots . Non - Commissioned Officers belonging to Military Departments , Q.E.R. Volunteers . 9th Lancers . THE COFFIN . Pall - Bearers . Charger of Deceased , led by Private Groom , Chief Mourners . Lady Hope Grant's Carriage . Miss Grant of Kilgraston's Carriage . Relatives , Connections , and intimate Friends . Officers in Uniform - Juniors first . Lord Provost and Council of Edinburgh . Civilians provided with funeral cards . Private Carriages . and the route ordained to be followed was Princes ' Street , Lothian Road , Brougham Street , Melville Drive , Argyle Place , and Chalmers Crescent , to east gate of the cemetery . The pall - bearers were six generals - viz . , General M'Cleverty , General Stephenson , General Sir A. Little , General Primrose , General Anderson , and General Sir John Douglas , and it is worthy of remark that all of these gallant officers had been in active service along with the late General Hope Grant - General Stephenson having served as Deputy Adjutant - General to Sir Hope Grant throughout his first campaign . General Parke , who commands at Dover , was , as previously announced , to have been one of the pall - bearers , but at the last moment he was prevented from taking part in the obsequies of his brother officer by severe indisposition . The chief mourners on foot were Mr. C. Grant of Kilgrasto , and Lieutenant - Colonel Grant , nephews of the deceased , and Sir George Home , Bart . , who is married to a niece of the late General's . Sir Francis Grant , P. R. A. , brother of the deceased , was unable to be present on account of illness . In the first carriage were Lady Grant , Lady Edwards , Miss Eyre , and Lady Grant's attendant ; and in the second carriage were Miss Grant of Kilgraston , and Miss Taylor . Among the relatives and intimate friends of the deceased who followed were : -- The Earl of Mansfield , Lord Balfour of Burleigh , Sir John Richardson , Bar Sir Francis Outram , Sir David Baird , Bart .; Colonel Drummond Hay , Lieutenant - Colonel Davidson , Mr A. B. Taylor , Mr A. Shakespeare , Mr H. Shakespeare , Mr Nisbet Hamilton , Mr Oliphant of Rossie , Mr G. A. Jamieson , C.A. Among the other gentlemen to , whom cards had been issued were the following : Lord Kinnoull , Dupplin Castle ; Lord Teignmouth , Sir Thomas Moncrieffe of Moncrieffe , Bart .; Sir Jas . G. Baird , Bart .; Sir Robert Menzies , Bart .; General Colin Mackenzie , T. Murray , W. Smythe of Methven , James Balfour , Eton Place , Edinburgh ; Francis Brown - Douglas , Moray Place , Edinburgh ; T. T. Oliphant of Rossie , Rev. J. Ainslie , St Andrews ; Dr Cleghorn of Stravithy , Dr Bell , St Andrews ; John Blackwood , George Street , Edinburgh ; W. Mann , S.S.C .; Rev. T. D. Kirkwood , Dunbarney ; Rev. Mr Wells , Bridge of Earn ; Major Booth , St Andrews , J. Anstruther Thomson of Charlton , J. Hope Grant , Smitten Newton of Pitcairn ; T. S. Walker , Maunby Hall . Among the officers present were : General Dalziel , General Reynolds , Major - General Sir James MacMahon , C.B. , Inspector - General of cavalry at Aldershot ; Colonel Biddulph , R.A .; Colonel Mac donald , representing the Duke of Cambridge ; Colonel Wood , V.C. ( who commanded a detachment during the Ashantee War ) ; Colonel Nason , Colonel W. C. Menzies , R.E .; Lieutenant - Colonel J. C. Webster , Lieutenant - Colonel C. Hagart , Major Russel , repre senting the Prince of Wales ; Major Henry Lumsden , representing the London Scottish Volunteers , of which General Hope Grant was Colonel ; Lieutenant Colonel Kemp , late 107th Regiment ; Major Norrie , late A.D.C. to General Grant ; Major Walker , Major Hughes , Dr Mackenzie ( who attended General Grant during his last illness ) , Captain Captain Barton , Coldstream Guards ; Corkrann , Coldstream Guards ; Captain Stuart , 12th Lancers ; Captain Knollys , R.A .; Captain Paterson ; Lieutenant Wheeler , 9th Lancers ; Lieu tenant J. Laurie , 2d Queens , and the following officers from Her Majesty's ship Favourite : -Commander Edwards , Lieutenant Robertson , Lieutenant Arm strong , Assistant - Paymaster Trescott , and District Paymaster Tweedie . The Staff Officers in Edinburgh were represented by Major Duncan , Fort Major ; Captain C. E. Phipps , Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry ; Deputy Surgeon - General Elliot , C.B. , Captain Colin Campbell , 7th Dragoon Guards , Edinburgh Garrison Instructor ; Deputy Con troller J. B. Lundy , R. J. Sprowl , Master Gunner . Edinburgh Castle . The Magistrates and Councillors of the city sup ported the Lord Provost in ample force , and among the other gentlemen who followed were Sheriff Davidson , Sheriff Adam , Messrs Wolfe Murray , John Pringle , Deputy - Inspector of Hospitals ; Andrew Grierson , W.S .; G. F. Barbour of Bonskied . Mr G. Machie of Dreghorn rode in his private carriage , as did also Mr Greig of Glencarse ; and among those who sent their carriages was Lord Moncreiff . There were in all ithirteen private carriages , the majority belonging to gentlemen walking in the procession . It was about fifteen minutes past eleven o'clock when the order " Slow March " was given , and the Dragoons moved off to the solemn strains of the Dead March in Saul . Then the 1st Royal Scots marched off from the right in half company forma tion - twelve files abreast , with arms reversed their band playing Beethoven's Funeral March . The Volunteers followed in similar formation , their band repeating the Dead March ; and next came the Artillery , with their guns and limber waggons , while the 9th Lancers , on foot , with lances reversed , immediately preceded the coffin , which , with its company of mourners on foot and in car riages , was flanked by a party of 20 Dragoons under an officer .

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912L : 2090/3

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Like Havelock , he made his way without in terest , and for long years a very tedious journey it was . The youngest son of the Laird of Kilgraston , in Perthshire - the President of the Royal Academy is his elder brother - James Hope Grant was born in 1808 , and in 1826 he received his first commission as cornet , in that gallant regiment the 9th Lancers . The corps he joined while as yet his moustache was not grown , he never quitted until at length in 1858 , after a service with the regiment of thirty - two years , he was promoted it may be said , on the field of battle - to the rank of Major - General . In 1865 he came back to the old regiment as its colonel , and he died as he had lived , one of the " old 9th . " His service in the field was wholly in the East , and perhaps therefore his name does not come so freely to the lips of many as the names of chiefs who gained renown for themselves in the Crimean war . Nevertheless , his field service was both varied and glorious , and he contributed only less than two or three men to the restoration of our grip on our Eastern Empire when the great mutiny so roughly challenged that hold .
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Few people probably remember with much detail the doings of the " Expeditionary Land Force " under Sir Hugh Gough , which in the summer of 1842 , disembarked from the fleet in the Yang - tse - Keang , and at tacked and stormed the Chinese city of Chin - Kean - foo . One brigade of this force was commanded by Lord Saltoun , the stubborn de fender of the wood and orchard of Hougomont . The brigade - major of Lord Saltoun's command was Captain Grant , of the 9th Lancers , who here first saw fighting . Brilliant little exploit as was the storm of the town and the capture of the adjacent entrenched camp , it was not a very serious business , for the total British loss in killed , wounded , and missing was but 145. On the ter mination of hostilities Grant rejoined his regi ment , which had gone out to India , and as its major took his fair share in more than one of Gough's " cold steel " battles against the indomitable Sikhs . That mass of men , the front of which " bristled with hostile bayonets which had already gathered on the right bank of the Sutlej , when Sir Henry Hardinge , the hero of Albuera , landed in India as the successor of Ellenborough , crossed the stream , and within the month Moodkee had been fought , and the two - days ' battle of Ferozeshunder , with the " night of horrors " in tervening . Aliwal was a more decisive victory , and in the following month ( 10th February , 1846 ) was fought the battle of Sobraon , at which Major Grant was present . This desperate combat , tle carnage in which was such as had not been seen . in India since the field of Paniput , was in & great measure battle of the bayonet , and the cavalry had but 1ttle chance of giving a helping hand , except toward the last , when the Sikh masses were struggling frantically for the crossing of the Sutlej . When the second Sikh war broke out in 1848 , Gough found himself at the head of a fine army , among the cavalry belonging to which was the 9th Lancers . But the campaign opened in auspiciously , if gloriously , for the British Cavalry . The pilgrim may still , haply , find three tombs near the Inambarah at Ramnuggur , from the summit of which Runjeet Singh was wont to review his troops . In one lies Cureton , a Boldier who from a " ranker " had risen by dint of conduct and valour all through the Penin sula and at Waterloo to the command of a cavalry brigade ; another is the sepulchre of gal lant Will Havelock , the chivalrous chief of the 14th Light , " who rode here to his death as cheerily as he had gone at the abatis in the Bidassoa ; in the third lies one of his subalterns , young Fitzgerald , the son of the hero of Seeta buldee . Who shall say what constitutes rashness in a cavalry leader ? That order to charge , which would have been lauded as heroism in Anglesey , or Murat , or Caulaincourt , has in William Havelock's case been called recklessness , simply because it did not succeed . At Chil lianwallah in the following year the 9th Lancers , which Grant by this time commanded , had the misfortune to belong to Pope's brigade . The story of that gloomy day need not be dwelt upon . The chief courts his fate who advances a cavalry brigade deployed into a dense forest , without a skirmisher thrown forward , or a reserve second line or supporting column behind . With what persistent constancy of self - abnegation the officers strove to stem the tide of retreat , and to make head against the fierce hostile onslaught , is matter of history , and furnishes the only relief to a very sombre picture . But the victory of Goojerat was to restore the weakened prestige of British arms , and to demon strate that the road to the front welcomer to British cavalry than that to the rear . That long cannonade , of which the most war experienced officers in the army had witnessed a parallel for magnificence and effect , ad done its work , and the constancy of the
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Kh lsa soldiery had been shaken . Penny , with the brigade which , under Godby , had snatched laurels out of the cypresses of Chillianwallah , had carried at the bayonet point the larger village which was the key of the Sikh position . The smaller village had been swept free of defenders by the gallantry of Franks , and the ardent courage of his brave 10th . The Sikh infantry were everywhere sullenly falling back , and the day seemed won . But Shere Sing was a man who was not to be beaten till he had exhausted every resource . With the rapid fury of a moun tain torrent the Sikh cavalry , together with 1,500 Afghan horse under Akram Khan , the son of Dost Mahomed , thundered down upon the flank and rear of the British cavalry .. Thackwell , a soldier whose pulses were as calm as his valour was ardent , set in array against them Malcolm's Seinde Horse , with the 9th Lancers , under Grant , in immediate support . The combat was short , sharp , and decisive ; and while the thwarted Khalsa sowars rode back to swell the rout of their comrades of the infantry , there followed them relentlessly the British horsemen . Onward these rushed , dispersing , riding over , and trampling down in their resistless career the flying and scattered Sikh soldiery , capturing guns and waggons , and converting the discomfited enemy into a shapeless mass of fugitives . It was not till they had ridden fifteen miles beyond Goojerat that they at length drew rein , by which time the hemy of Shere Sing was a wreck , deprived of its amp , its standards , and fifty - three pieces of
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The Punjab pacified and duly annexed , there followed for Grant several years of quiet regi mental duty . He had been made a lieutenant colone ! by brevet for his services in the Sikh wars ; in 1850 there came to him the substantive
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Under his command the 9th Lancers held well their place as one of the smartest regiments in the service , a charter which the regiment has continued to maintain under Little , Fiennes , Bad Marshall , its present chief . When the Indian Mutiny broke out in 1857 , quartered at Umballa , and formed part of t slender column which marched against Dlhi . Grant was made cavalry brigadier , and never afterwards reverted to regimental duty . Ve found his way into action with characteristic alacrity at Budlee - ka - Serai , where with the 9th Lancers and Turner's and Tombs ' batteries he urned the flank of the mutineers , and helped to rive them into Delhi . Then commenced the long , veary siege - weary though full of so much dramatic variety . Of all this period Sir Hope has left his own record in the journal which was Sublished in 1878 under the editorship of Captain Henry Knollys , R.A. Modesty , simple , frank straightforwardness , ceaseless energy of activity , wise caution under strong temptation to be rash , the cool confronting of danger as an ordinary matter of course , a keen sense of quiet fun , and a fervent yet undemonstrative piety - these are the characteristics of its author which are to be gathered from the pages of this journal . The following is a sample of its style >
As long as daylight lasted we drove the rebels back , but when darkness ensued they got round our flanks and two of my guns were in the greatest jeopardy . I therefore collected a few men together and charged the enemy . A sepoy within five yards of me fired at my horse , and put a bullet through his body close to my leg . It was singular he did not aim at me ; but in all probability he thought it best to make sure of killing the horse , and that then to a certainty the rider would fall into his hands . I felt that my poor charger had received his death - wound , yet he galloped on fifty yards through the throng of rebels , and then dropped down dead . I was in rather an awkward predicament - unhorsed , surrounded by the enemy , and owing to the darkness ignorant in which direction to proceed - when my orderly , a native sowar of the 4th Irregulars , by name Rooper . Khan , rode up to me , and said , " Take my horse - it is your only chance of safety . " I could not but admire his fine con duct . He was a Hindostanee Mussulman , belonging to a regiment the greater part of which had mutinied ; and it would have been easy for him to have killed me and gone over to the enemy ; but he behaved nobly and was ready to save my life at the risk of his own . I re fused his offer ; but , taking a firm grasp of his horse's tail , I told Rooper Khan to drag me out of the crowd . This he performed successfully and with great courage . There were likewise two men of the 9th Lancers , who behaved with great gallantry , Thomas Handcock and John Purcell . They stuck to me during the fight without consulting their own safety ; " he latter had his horse killed under him about the same time I lost my own ; and Handcock seeing me dismounted in the midst of my foes earnestly besought me to take his charger .. . I don't think I ever felt so dead beat before . The weather was fearfully hot . I threw myself exhausted on the ground , and the only thing which revived me was a glass of beer given me by Lieutenant Drummond .
The cavalry brigade under Grant took an important share in the final operations which culminated in the fall of Delhi . On the day of the assault it covered the otherwise unprotected batteries ; and when the failure of the attack or the Lahore Bastion encouraged the enemy to assume the offensive , it was the cavalry brigade , with the artillery attached to it , which baulked their effort , although with a loss proportionally more severe than any that befell our soldiers throughout the quelling of the mutiny . Delhi
having fallen , Brigadier Grant was sent to assume the command of a movable column which had been operating in the Agra district under the command of Colonel Greathed . This column presently formed part of the force with which Sir Coli Campbell effected the relief of Lucknow , and in that enterprise Brigadier - General Grant , as second
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command , had an important share . He was the first to greet General Havelock in the Mori Mahal , when the connecting link was achieved between the relieving and the beleaguered forces ; and the subsequent meeting of the four generals in the Mess - house , which Garnet Wolseley had stormed , is familiar to many through the engraving of Mr. Jones Barker's well known picture . General Grant at once betook himself to the assistance of the women of the Residency garrison . He tells us of one little girl who ran up to her mother exclaiming , " Oh , Mamma , there's a loaf of bread on the table . I'm certain of it ; I saw it with my own eyes ! " and of " a gentle delicate - looking lady , " who was urgent in her requisition for cheese . After much effort he procured a large piece of high flavoure strong - smelling , greasy - looking cheese , " and wrapped up in a dirty old newspaper ; he remarks naïvely- " To the commander of fine force relieving 8 large number of his countrywomen from a terrible imprison ment , and under the influence of highly - wrought feelings of sublimity , it was rather a come down both in feeling and in sentiment , to be the bearer of this nasty strong cheese . " Returning to commanded Cawnpore with the army , Grant the cavalry brigade in the battle in which Campbell punished the Gwalior contingent for the audacity with which it had pressed Windham , and two days after marched out in command of the column which after a fight at Serai Ghat destroyed Nana Sahib's Palace of Bithoor , and captured the artillery of the Gwalior contingent . From this time until the final subjugation the mutiny , Hope Grant's life may be described in a very short sentence . He was always in the saddle , and with his sword drawn . He shared in the final capture of Lucknow , he scoured Oude in innumerable raids , he fought in countless skir mishes , broke up band after band of the rebels , and captured fort after fort . He never sus tained a reverse , because although he never missed a chance , he never allowed his ardour to outweigh his caution ; and when some civilian - a fire - eater at his desk - thought proper to criticise the mili tary carefulness of a veteran soldier , Sir Colin " let him have it " in the following biting language " . is pleased to criminate the officers for adhering to the rules of their pro fession , a departure from which is an unfailing source of disaster ; and he sneers at the caution , which , combined as it is in the case of Sir Hope Grant , with extraordinary personal courage , is a more certain source of victory than almost any quality which can be named . Long before the mutiny was finally quenched , Brigadier - General Grant had been nominated a K.C.B. , and in February , 1858 , he was raised to the rank of Major General as a reward for his " eminent services . " When the mutiny ended the whole force in Oude was under his command , and he had at least 100 miles of the Nepaul frontier under his wardership to restrain the rebel fugitives from incursions from the Terai . In the end of 1859 he was nominated to the command of the British force about to pro ceed to China , to co - operate with the French in repairing the disaster which had been suffered in the attack on the Taku Forts . He was gazetted a Lieutenant - General , and sailed for China from Calcutta in February , 1860 .
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The force under General Sir Hope Grant's com mand in China amounted to 14,000 of all ranks , and Wolseley affirms with truth that " England had never before opened a campaign with such a well - organized or a more efficient force . Nothing that could add to the health or comfort of the men was neglected , and all that talent ability could do to render an army perfect was provided for . " The disembarkation made at Peytang , the successful battle of Sinho fought , and the enemy's works at Tang - koo seized upon and converted into a position whence was made the assault on the Taku Forts . The storming of the first fort was cir an exploit , the cumstances of which have never received the at It was tention which they merited . between French and English who should be first on the parapet . A lithe Frenchman was swiftest , and was shot dead while he waved the tricolour and led the cheering . The Frenchman had scarcely fallen when young Chaplain , of the 67th , was on the parapet and spreading out to the breeze the Queen's colour of his regi ment . Of the battles at Chang - kia - wan and Pa - le - cheaou it is not necessary to speak in detail , and needless to say that they were vic tories . Then followed the advance on Pekin , the burning of the Summer Palace , and the peace which concluded one of the most successful " little wars " in which we have ever engaged . For his services in this war Sir Hope Grant
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was appointed a G.C.B. , and received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament . He was also made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour by the Emperor of the French . On his return from China he was nominated to the post of Com mander - in Chief of the Madras Army ; in 1865 he returned to England , where he was appointed eneral at the orse Guards ;
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THE funeral of General Sir Hope Grant took place in Edinburgh on Saturday . The body arrived by train from London early in the morning , and was removed to the Douglas Hotel . it remained until shortly after eleven o'clock , when the funeral was formed procession proceeded to the Grange Cemetery . All the soldiers in garrison , together with a detach ment of the 9th Lancers ( the deceased general's regiment ) and a large body of volunteers were in the procession . There were also present many civilian friends of the deceased , several general officers , and the Lord Provost and Corporation . The procession moved along Princes ' Street , Melville by the Lothian Road , along the Drive and Argyle Place to the cemetery , where the interment took place . The spectacle was imposing , and brought out a very large number of spectators . Unfortunately a serious and fatal accident took place . At the corner of Argyle Flace some persons had perched themselves upon the roof of a mason's shed . Just as the procession was passing , this roof gave way , and frightened some of the horses of the Dragoons . The prancing of these caused the crowd to press on to the railings of an area opposite . These railings gave way , and a number of persons fell into the area . One woman sustained injuries from which she died in a short time , and several other persons were seriously injured . FUNERAL OF GENERAL SIRJ . HOPE GRANT .
EDINBURGH has witnessed many notable funerals , but never perhaps one more imposing than that of Saturday , in which befitting honour was paid to a distinguished soldier whom any people might well be proud to claim as a countryman . The scion of an old Scotch house , Sir J. Hope Grant , after a career in which he helped to maintain the integrity of the British Empire , and which in due course led to high distinction as the reward of brave and skilful con duct , bethought him in his later years of seeking his last resting - place in the soil which gave him birth . His wish has been fulfilled in a public demonstration combining the simplicity proper to a soldier's obse quies with the pomp and circumstance which be seemed the expression of a national regret . The whole military force readily available was mustered for the occasion , together with a due representation of our citizen soldiery ; the metropolitan corporation attended in its official capacity ; while the general community turned out in tens of thousands to watch . the ceremonial with which the remains of one of Scotland's worthiest sons were committed to ground already hallowed by the dust of several eminent
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On Friday evening , the body of the late General was removed from the London residence of his niece , the Baroness Gray , to King's Cross Station for con veyance to Edinburgh by the 8.30 r.M. train . coffin was under the charge of Captain Knollys , R. A. , and there also travelled with the train Lady Hope Grant , Lady Edwards , Miss Grant of Kilgraston , Miss Taylor , Miss Eyre , Mr Charles Grant , Lieut. Colonel Grant , and other gentlemen who proposed to attend the funeral . The train , which was 20 minutes late at Berwick - on - Tweed , reached the Waverley Station at 6.25 A.M. , and although the hour was thus early , some 200 people or so , prin cipally working men and young lads , were waiting to see its arrival . On the train drawing up at the Waverley platform the coffin was at once re moved from the covered van in which it had been brought from London to a plain hearse drawn by two black horses , and conveyed to the Douglas Hotel , St Andrew Square . The London party and their attendants drove thither in cabs . At the door of the Douglas the crowd again assembled eager to catch a glimpse of the coffin as it was carried into the hotel . In the coffee - room a bier , suitably draped in black , had been set , and upon it the coffin was placed . The body of the deceased General , it may be here stated , was enclosed in a three - fold coffin , consisting of an inner shell , a lead coffin , and a beautifully polished oaken coffin with gilt handles and mountings . On the lid were a monogram and laurel wreath , and the plate bore the following inscription :
General
Sir JAMES HOPE GRANT , G.C.B. ,
Commander of Her Majesty's Forces at Aldershot . Born 22d July 1809 . Died 7th March 1875 .
As a last token of regard for the memory of the departed , beautiful wreaths , composed of camelias , evergreens , and immortelles had been forwarded by Lady Elcho . Dowager Lady Ruthven . Mrs Malcolm ,
Sir Henry Wilmott and Sir John Richardson , and a laurel wreath , worthily due to the memory of the departed hero , was , we believe , sent by a number of his brother officers . These were all placed on the coffin as it lay in the hotel , as were also General Hope Grant's plumed hat and sword , and a velvet cushion on which were displayed his orders and medals the latter telling the story of labours in his country's cause in China in 1842 , in the Sikh war at Chillianwallah and Goojerat ; again in India at Delhi and Lucknow , and in China in 1860 at Pekin and the Takui Forts .
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Half - past ten was the hour at which the troops under orders to take part in the funeral were to meet in St Andrew Square . The detachment of the 9th Lancers - of which regiment the late general was colonel consisting of twenty - one men , under the command of Captain Cleland , who had arrived from Canterbury on the previous day for the purpose of being present at the funeral , were early on the ground , and with their some what showy uniform and picturesque weapons , were the Anon the cynosure of all eyes . burnished helmets and nodding plumes of the 1st Royal Dragoons were seen advancing along South St Andrew Street , closely followed by the 1st Royal Scots Infantry from the Castle , the former being under the command of Lieutenant - Colonel Ainslie , and the latter under Lieutenant - Colonel M'Gwire . The Artillery from Leith Fort , under their battery Colonel C. F. Young , with of Armstrong guns , entered the Square from the north side , and in a few minutes afterwards the Queen's Edinburgh Brigade of Volunteers , headed by Lieutenant - Colonel J. H. A. Macdonald , made their appearance . As the different regiments arrived , they took up without delay the positions which had been assigned to them by the Assistant Adjutant - General ( Colonel Pea cocke . ) The Lancers in line in front of the door of the Douglas Hotel ; the Dragoons occupied the south - east side of the Square and South St Andrew Street ; the 1st Royal Scots and Q.E.R , Volunteers were drawn up in line side of the east railings - the 1st Royal Scots to the south , the Volunteers to the north , while the Artillery took up a position on the north - east side of the square , but were somewhat hidden from view by the great gathering of people that now began to assemble . By the order posted on Friday the men were enjoined to wear their coats and cloaks if the day was wet ; but , fortunately , although the early morning was dull and raw , with an occasional shower of sleet , the weather cleared up sufficiently before the men left quarters to enable them to dispense with their overcoats and appear in review order . The scene in the was exceedingly picturesque ; but the flags half - mast high which floated over the hotel , and which could be seen waving in the breeze above the City Chambers and other buildings ; the draped colours of the military , the crape bands on the left arm of the officers , and the quiet and subdued way in which the different orders were given , indicated at once the sorrowful nature of the service in which the troops were about to engage . The parade statis tics showed that there were present of the Royal Scots 14 officers and 370 rank and file ; of the Dragoons , 250 officers and men ; of the Volunteers , 348 officers and A full battery of artillery , with their six Armstrong guns , was also present , the troops thus numbering in all about 1100. The National , British Linen , and Royal Banks closed at ten o'clock , and soon thereafter their balconies and windows , as well as every other window in the Square , were filled with spectators , principally ladies and children . Numbers of adventurous persons also got upon the roofs of the houses ; a considerable sprinkling of people found their way into the gardens , while the spaces on the north - east and south - east sides of the square unoccupied by the troops were crowded with sightseers , the majority being of the class who can stand a little pressure without being put to much inconvenience thereby .
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As eleven o'clock drew near , the hour at which the body was to be removed the officers representing vari ous branches of the service , were drawn up in line on the pavement a little to the north of the principal entrance of the hotel ; beyond them were the Lord Provost , Magistrates , and Council , the Town Clerk , and City Chamberlain in their official robes , mar shalled by Mr Macpherson , chief city officer , the other officers , and headed by draped halberts , and behind the civic authori ties were grouped the gentlemen , to the number of fifty or thereabouts , who had been furnished with funeral cards . It was at first intended that the first part of the Church of England Burial Service should be read in the hotel ; but this arrangement was de parted from , as it was thought more desirable that the whole of it should be read in the churchyard . Shortly after eleven o'clock , a gun carriage , drawn by six horses , was brought to the door of the hotel , and ten men of the 9th Lancers were told off to The pallbearers formed in line " lift " the body . on each side of the entrance ; the troops were brought to " Attention , " and as the Lancers appeared at the door carrying out the coffin shoulder high , a general salute was given . The coffin having been carefully placed on the gun carriage , the Union Jack was thrown over it , and on the lid were laid the plumed hat and sword of the deceased General , the wreaths previously mentioned , and the velvet cushion on which were displayed his orders and medals . A few minutes were occupied in securing these , so as to prevent their falling off ; then Lady Grant and the other ladies of the party were con ducted to their carriages , and the procession started in the following order :
Advance Guard of Royal Dragoons . Royal Dragoons . 1st Royal Scots . Non - Commissioned Officers belonging to Military Departments , Q.E.R. Volunteers . 9th Lancers .
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Charger of Deceased , led by Private Groom , Chief Mourners . Lady Hope Grant's Carriage . Miss Grant of Kilgraston's Carriage . Relatives , Connections , and intimate Friends . Officers in Uniform - Juniors first . Lord Provost and Council of Edinburgh . Civilians provided with funeral cards . Private Carriages .
and the route ordained to be followed was Princes ' Street , Lothian Road , Brougham Street , Melville Drive , Argyle Place , and Chalmers Crescent , to east gate of the cemetery .
The pall - bearers were six generals - viz . , General M'Cleverty , General Stephenson , General Sir A. Little , General Primrose , General Anderson , and General Sir John Douglas , and it is worthy of remark that all of these gallant officers had been in active service along with the late General Hope Grant - General Stephenson having served as Deputy Adjutant - General to Sir Hope Grant throughout his first campaign . General Parke , who commands at Dover , was , as previously announced , to have been one of the pall - bearers , but at the last moment he was prevented from taking part in the obsequies of his brother officer by severe indisposition . The chief mourners on foot were Mr. C. Grant of Kilgrasto , and Lieutenant - Colonel Grant , nephews of the deceased , and Sir George Home , Bart . , who is married to a niece of the late General's . Sir Francis Grant , P. R. A. , brother of the deceased , was unable to be present on account of illness . In the first carriage were Lady Grant , Lady Edwards , Miss Eyre , and Lady Grant's attendant ; and in the second carriage were Miss Grant of Kilgraston , and Miss Taylor . Among the relatives and intimate friends of the deceased who followed were : -- The Earl of Mansfield , Lord Balfour of Burleigh , Sir John Richardson , Bar Sir Francis Outram , Sir David Baird , Bart .; Colonel Drummond Hay , Lieutenant - Colonel Davidson , Mr A. B. Taylor , Mr A. Shakespeare , Mr H. Shakespeare , Mr Nisbet Hamilton , Mr Oliphant of Rossie , Mr G. A. Jamieson , C.A. Among the other gentlemen to , whom cards had been issued were the following : Lord Kinnoull , Dupplin Castle ; Lord Teignmouth , Sir Thomas Moncrieffe of Moncrieffe , Bart .; Sir Jas . G. Baird , Bart .; Sir Robert Menzies , Bart .; General Colin Mackenzie , T. Murray , W. Smythe of Methven , James Balfour , Eton Place , Edinburgh ; Francis Brown - Douglas , Moray Place , Edinburgh ; T. T. Oliphant of Rossie , Rev. J. Ainslie , St Andrews ; Dr Cleghorn of Stravithy , Dr Bell , St Andrews ; John Blackwood , George Street , Edinburgh ; W. Mann , S.S.C .; Rev. T. D. Kirkwood , Dunbarney ; Rev. Mr Wells , Bridge of Earn ; Major Booth , St Andrews , J. Anstruther Thomson of Charlton , J. Hope Grant , Smitten Newton of Pitcairn ; T. S. Walker , Maunby Hall .
Among the officers present were : General Dalziel , General Reynolds , Major - General Sir James MacMahon , C.B. , Inspector - General of cavalry at Aldershot ; Colonel Biddulph , R.A .; Colonel Mac donald , representing the Duke of Cambridge ; Colonel Wood , V.C. ( who commanded a detachment during the Ashantee War ) ; Colonel Nason , Colonel W. C. Menzies , R.E .; Lieutenant - Colonel J. C. Webster , Lieutenant - Colonel C. Hagart , Major Russel , repre senting the Prince of Wales ; Major Henry Lumsden , representing the London Scottish Volunteers , of which General Hope Grant was Colonel ; Lieutenant Colonel Kemp , late 107th Regiment ; Major Norrie , late A.D.C. to General Grant ; Major Walker , Major Hughes , Dr Mackenzie ( who attended General Grant during his last illness ) , Captain Captain Barton , Coldstream Guards ; Corkrann , Coldstream Guards ; Captain Stuart , 12th Lancers ; Captain Knollys , R.A .; Captain Paterson ; Lieutenant Wheeler , 9th Lancers ; Lieu tenant J. Laurie , 2d Queens , and the following officers from Her Majesty's ship Favourite : -Commander Edwards , Lieutenant Robertson , Lieutenant Arm strong , Assistant - Paymaster Trescott , and District Paymaster Tweedie . The Staff Officers in Edinburgh were represented by Major Duncan , Fort Major ; Captain C. E. Phipps , Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for Musketry ; Deputy Surgeon - General Elliot , C.B. , Captain Colin Campbell , 7th Dragoon Guards , Edinburgh Garrison Instructor ; Deputy Con troller J. B. Lundy , R. J. Sprowl , Master Gunner . Edinburgh Castle .
The Magistrates and Councillors of the city sup ported the Lord Provost in ample force , and among the other gentlemen who followed were Sheriff Davidson , Sheriff Adam , Messrs Wolfe Murray , John Pringle , Deputy - Inspector of Hospitals ; Andrew Grierson , W.S .; G. F. Barbour of Bonskied . Mr G. Machie of Dreghorn rode in his private carriage , as did also Mr Greig of Glencarse ; and among those who sent their carriages was Lord Moncreiff . There were in all ithirteen private carriages , the majority belonging to gentlemen walking in the procession . It was about fifteen minutes past eleven o'clock when the order " Slow March " was given , and the Dragoons moved off to the solemn strains of the Dead March in Saul . Then the 1st Royal Scots marched off from the right in half company forma tion - twelve files abreast , with arms reversed their band playing Beethoven's Funeral March . The Volunteers followed in similar formation , their band repeating the Dead March ; and next came the Artillery , with their guns and limber waggons , while the 9th Lancers , on foot , with lances reversed , immediately preceded the coffin , which , with its company of mourners on foot and in car riages , was flanked by a party of 20 Dragoons under an officer .

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