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Name: GRANT, Thomas
Nee: brother of William Grant
Birth Date: 1874 ?Argyll and Bute
Death Date: 1946 ?Argyll and Bute
Nationality: British
First Date: 1900
Profession: DC, 1910 Political Officer in Turkana
Area: Entebbe 1901, Masindi 1902, Uganda, Turkana
Married: ?8 Apr 1901 Florence Ellen Arnold
Children: ?Doris Dinah
Book Reference: Moyse, EAHB 1905, EAS, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907
General Information:
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa (Mr & Mrs T. Grant)
Drumkey 1909 - Collector, UP Nov 15th 1904; Ag. Asst. Collector, UP 1900; Asst. Collector 1901
Red 22 - Thomas Grant, D.P.O., Bagamoyo, Tanganyika
EAHB 1906 - T. Grant, Hoima
North - Clerk, temporary appt. Uganda Transport 26-10-1900; Acting Asst. Collector & transport Officer at Entebbe 23-11-1900; appt. 3rd Class Asst. UP 15-2-1901; resident at Entebbe May 1901; arr Mombasa from England after leave with wife 10-11-1902; Asst. Collector at Masindi Dec 1903; Hoima Oct 1904; promoted to Collector 15-11-1904; 1906 Hoima
EAHB 1905 - Temporarily employed as Asst. Collector, Uganda, Oct. 1900; appointed Asst. Collector, April 15th 1901; Collector Nov 15th 1904
Frank H. Melland & Edward H. Cholmeley, Through the Heart of Africa, 1912: The staff at Hoima station at the time of our visit consisted of the District Commissioner, M.r Thomas Grant, the medical officer, Dr. Strathairn, with some subordinate officials, besides two subalterns, Messrs. Trewin and Carew, officers in charge of a detachment of the King's African Rifles. This detachment is a company of the Nubian Battalion and is composed of natives from Soudanese territory, who are entirely distinct in many salient features from the local population.