Alfred Ernest Albert Grant

Grant was the sixth son of John Glasgow Grant, CMG, sometime Speaker of the House of Assembly of Barbados. He entered HMS Britannia as a colonial cadet in 1874, and took part in the Anglo-Egyptian War of 1882.^[3] He was promoted to lieutenant on 30 June 1884,^[4] and to commander on 30 June 1896.^[5]

He was appointed in command of the protected cruiser HMS Pyramus on 2 August 1901, while she was stationed in the Mediterranean Fleet. In October 1902 she was reported to be visiting Suda Bay at Crete,^[6] and the following year he paid her off at the station headquarters at Malta on 4 February 1903.^[7]

• Portraits of Alfred Ernest Albert Grant at the National Portrait Gallery, London