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'''Colesworthey Grant''' (sometimes spelt '''Colesworthy''') (25 October 1813 – 31 May 1880{{sfn|Mittra|1881|p=80}}) was an English artist, writer and pioneer activist against cruelty to animals in [[India]]. |
'''Colesworthey Grant''' (sometimes spelt '''Colesworthy''') (25 October 1813 – 31 May 1880{{sfn|Mittra|1881|p=80}}) was an English artist, writer and pioneer activist against cruelty to animals in [[India]]. |
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==Biography== |
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Grant was born in London to a Scottish father who manufactured mathematical instruments and a mother of Welsh ancestry. He arrived in India at the age of nineteen and joined his brother George who was a clock and watch-maker in Calcutta. Colesworthey was injured in the spine from a fall during one of his exercise sessions and could not walk straight after that. Colesworthey took an interest in sketching and began to contribute to the ''India Review'' from 1838 through Dr Fred Corbyn and later to the ''Calcutta Monthly Journal''. These early works included portrait sketches of many eminent persons who lived in Calcutta. He later became a professor of drawing at [[Presidency College, Calcutta|Presidency College]].{{sfn|Mittra|1881|p=80}} |
Grant was born in London to a Scottish father who manufactured mathematical instruments and a mother of Welsh ancestry. He arrived in India at the age of nineteen and joined his brother George who was a clock and watch-maker in Calcutta. Colesworthey was injured in the spine from a fall during one of his exercise sessions and could not walk straight after that. Colesworthey took an interest in sketching and began to contribute to the ''India Review'' from 1838 through Dr Fred Corbyn and later to the ''Calcutta Monthly Journal''. These early works included portrait sketches of many eminent persons who lived in Calcutta. He later became a professor of drawing at [[Presidency College, Calcutta|Presidency College]].{{sfn|Mittra|1881|p=80}} |
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Colesworthey founded the Calcutta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1861, one of the first organizations of its kind in the world. Grant was moved by the injuries and mutilations he saw to street animals, particularly draught cattle and horses, inflicted mostly by their owners and keepers.{{sfn|Chakrabarti|2010}} He published a text for children on animal cruelty that was to be used in Sunday schools. Towards the end of his life he received an Honorary Diploma from the [[Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]]. A memorial obelisk was erected in Calcutta with a watering trough for animals.{{sfn|Mittra|1881|p=83}} |
Colesworthey founded the Calcutta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1861, one of the first organizations of its kind in the world. Grant was moved by the injuries and mutilations he saw to street animals, particularly draught cattle and horses, inflicted mostly by their owners and keepers.{{sfn|Chakrabarti|2010}} He published a text for children on animal cruelty that was to be used in Sunday schools. Towards the end of his life he received an Honorary Diploma from the [[Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]]. A memorial obelisk was erected in Calcutta with a watering trough for animals.{{sfn|Mittra|1881|p=83}} |
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==Works== |
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* {{cite book|last1=Speede|first1=G. T. Frederic S. Barlow|last2=Grant|first2=Colesworthey|title=Indian Handbook of Gardening ... With illustrations ... To which is added, an Hindoostanee and English Vocabulary of horticultural and agricultural terms|date=1840|publisher=Calcutta|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=4nTAnQEACAAJ|language=en|display-authors=1}} (Illustrator) |
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* {{cite book|last1=Grant|first1=Colesworthey|last2=Collection|first2=Southeast Asia Special|title=Rough Pencillings of a Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846|date=1853|isbn=9781297904301|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=PZQ8jgEACAAJ|language=en|display-authors=0}} |
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* {{cite book|last1=Grant|first1=Colesworthey|title=Rural Life in Bengal: Illustrative of Anglo-Indian Suburban Life : More Particularly in Connection with the Planter and Peasantry, the Varied Produce of the Soil and Seasons; with Copious Details of the Culture and Manufacture of Indigo: Letters from an Artist in India to His Sisters in England|date=1860|publisher=W. Thacker & Company|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=N-U2AQAAMAAJ|language=en|display-authors=0}} |
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* {{cite book|last1=Grant|first1=Colesworthey|title=Anglo-Indian Domestic Life: A Letter from an Artist in India to His Mother in England|date=1862|publisher=Subarnarekha|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ukoOAAAAQAAJ|language=en|display-authors=0}} |
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* {{cite book|last1=Grant|first1=Colesworthey|title=Portrait sketches of the public characters of Calcutta, published in the "India Review", "India Medical"... from 1838 to 1850|date=1863|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=YvkRAAAAYAAJ|language=en|display-authors=0}} |
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* {{cite book|last1=Grant|first1=Colesworthey|title=To the children of Calcutta. On cruelty, by the hon. secretary, Calcutta society for the prevention of cruelty to animals|date=1872|url=https://books.google.co.in/books?id=BJkDAAAAQAAJ|language=en|display-authors=0}} |
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==Notes== |
==Notes== |
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* [https://www.telegraphindia.com/1080914/jsp/calcutta/story_9806560.jsp Monument in Calcutta] |
* [https://www.telegraphindia.com/1080914/jsp/calcutta/story_9806560.jsp Monument in Calcutta] |
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* [https://archive.org/details/angloindiandome00grangoog Anglo-Indian domestic life : a letter from an artist in India to his mother in England (1862)] |
* [https://archive.org/details/angloindiandome00grangoog Anglo-Indian domestic life : a letter from an artist in India to his mother in England (1862)] |
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* [https://archive.org/stream/roughpencillings00granrich Rough pencillings of a rough trip to Rangoon in 1846 (1853)] |
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Revision as of 12:02, 1 June 2017
Colesworthey Grant (sometimes spelt Colesworthy) (25 October 1813 – 31 May 1880[1]) was an English artist, writer and pioneer activist against cruelty to animals in India.
Biography
Grant was born in London to a Scottish father who manufactured mathematical instruments and a mother of Welsh ancestry. He arrived in India at the age of nineteen and joined his brother George who was a clock and watch-maker in Calcutta. Colesworthey was injured in the spine from a fall during one of his exercise sessions and could not walk straight after that. Colesworthey took an interest in sketching and began to contribute to the India Review from 1838 through Dr Fred Corbyn and later to the Calcutta Monthly Journal. These early works included portrait sketches of many eminent persons who lived in Calcutta. He later became a professor of drawing at Presidency College.[1]
Colesworthey founded the Calcutta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1861, one of the first organizations of its kind in the world. Grant was moved by the injuries and mutilations he saw to street animals, particularly draught cattle and horses, inflicted mostly by their owners and keepers.[2] He published a text for children on animal cruelty that was to be used in Sunday schools. Towards the end of his life he received an Honorary Diploma from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A memorial obelisk was erected in Calcutta with a watering trough for animals.[3]
Works
- Speede, G. T. Frederic S. Barlow; et al. (1840). Indian Handbook of Gardening ... With illustrations ... To which is added, an Hindoostanee and English Vocabulary of horticultural and agricultural terms. Calcutta. (Illustrator)
- Rough Pencillings of a Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846. 1853. ISBN 9781297904301.
- Rural Life in Bengal: Illustrative of Anglo-Indian Suburban Life : More Particularly in Connection with the Planter and Peasantry, the Varied Produce of the Soil and Seasons; with Copious Details of the Culture and Manufacture of Indigo: Letters from an Artist in India to His Sisters in England. W. Thacker & Company. 1860.
- Anglo-Indian Domestic Life: A Letter from an Artist in India to His Mother in England. Subarnarekha. 1862.
- Portrait sketches of the public characters of Calcutta, published in the "India Review", "India Medical"... from 1838 to 1850. 1863.
- To the children of Calcutta. On cruelty, by the hon. secretary, Calcutta society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. 1872.
Notes
- ^ a b Mittra 1881, p. 80.
- ^ Chakrabarti 2010.
- ^ Mittra 1881, p. 83.
References
- Chakrabarti, Pratik (2010). "Beasts of Burden: Animals and Laboratory Research in Colonial India". History of Science. 48 (2): 125–152. doi:10.1177/007327531004800201. PMC 2997667. PMID 20582325.
- Mittra, Peary Chand (1881). Life of Colesworthy Grant.
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