Charles Grant (British Army officer) Chief of Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle, retiring from that posting in 1940. He was also Honorary Colonel of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry from 1930 to 1946. He owned and lived much of his life at Pitchford Hall in Shropshire. He was married in 1903 to Lady Sybil Myra Caroline Primrose (1879–1955), eldest daughter of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, who had served as British Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. They had one son, Charles Robert Archibald Grant, who married Pamela Wellesley (born 1912), a granddaughter of the 4th Duke of Wellington. Grant died at
Prime Minister of Singapore the Constitution also vests "general direction and control of the government" in the Cabinet. The President is almost always bound to act on the advice of the Cabinet or any minister acting under Cabinet authority. Thus, in practice, most of the actual work of governing is done by the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The office of Prime Minister dates back to 1959 and was appointed at first by the Governor of Singapore then the Yang di-Pertuan Negara (vice-regal head of state), when Singapore achieved self-governance as the State of Singapore within the British Empire. The title of Prime Minister remained