Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Ken Grant | |
Constituency Am1: | Rockhampton |
Assembly1: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start1: | 11 March 1902 |
Term End1: | 27 April 1912 |
Predecessor1: | George Curtis |
Successor1: | Seat abolished |
Alongside1: | William Kidston, John Adamson |
Constituency Am2: | Fitzroy |
Assembly2: | Queensland Legislative |
Term Start2: | 27 April 1912 |
Term End2: | 22 May 1915 |
Predecessor2: | James Crawford |
Successor2: | Harold Hartley |
Birth Date: | September 1866 |
Birth Place: | Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
Death Date: | 13 August 1922 (aged 55) |
Death Place: | Albion, Queensland, Australia |
Restingplace: | Toowong Cemetery |
Birthname: | Kenneth Macdonald Grant |
Nationality: | Australian |
Party: | Kidstonites |
Otherparty: | Labour |
Occupation: | Telegraphist |
Kenneth Macdonald Grant (September 1866 – 13 August 1922) was a telegraphist and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly in Australia.[1]
Grant was born in Geelong, Victoria, to parents William Grant and his wife Jessie (née McDonald) and attended Brisbane Normal School. He began his working life as a cadet in the Post and Telegraphs Department and became a telegraphist at the Rockhampton Post Office and Railway Traffic Office. Later on he was a director of the Blair Athol Land and Timber Co.[1] and the principal of K.M. Grant and Co. Ltd.[2]
In his younger days he was a keen sportsman and president of the Central Queensland Rugby League, and a patron of the Rockhampton Jockey Club and the Rockhampton Bowls Club.[2]
Unmarried, he died from the complications of an attack of influenza in August 1922.[2] His funeral proceeded from has Albion home to the Toowong Cemetery.[3] [4]
Grant represented the state seat of Rockhampton from 1902 until 1912. He then switched to the seat of Fitzroy in 1912 but was defeated by Harold Hartley in 1915.[5] He started out representing the Labour Party but by the end of his political career he was a member of the Kidstonites.[1]
He was the Chairman of Committees in 1910, Acting Secretary for Public Instruction in 1911-1912, and Home Secretary and Secretary for Mines in 1915.