Charles Mitchell Grant

Personal Details

Born

1830

Main nationality

Britain

Scotland

Profession

Businessman

Travel

Year of visit

1862

Reason for travel

Self-employed businessman / entrepreneur

Route

Grant states he was interested in exploring the feasibility of a route from China to Europe through Russia and Mongolia to make postal communication speedier than the sea route and to compete with Russian postal service. FELDMAN GALLERIES. 2012. The Russian Post Offices in the Chinese Empire (Part II) pp14-15.

Documentation

Publication

Route from Pekin to St. Petersburg, viâ Mongolia, 1862
https://archive.org/details/jstor-1799488

Notes

Route from Pekin to St. Petersburg, viâ Mongolia" is an article from Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 7.

Information from Geni.com

Birthdate:before circa June 26, 1830

Birthplace:Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

Death:December 24, 1891
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States

Immediate Family:

Son of Alexander Grant and Isabella Grant
Husband of Barbara Grant
Father of Varvara Karlovna Bryzgalov and Alexander Charles Grant
Brother of John Mitchell Grant; Walter Grant and William Grant

Occupation:Capitalist, explorer, geographer

Photo credits

Photo in the public domain. Source: Geni.com

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