Background
Grantham was born on 15 March 1899 and was educated at Wellington, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Governor of Fiji Governor of Hong Kong
Grantham was born on 15 March 1899 and was educated at Wellington, the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
In 1934, He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple and attended the Imperial Defence College later that year.
He was gazetted in the 18th Hussars in 1917 and joined the Colonial Administrative Service in Hong Kong in 1922. He was the Deputy Clerk of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for a short period in 1933. Grantham became Colonial Secretary of Bermuda from 1935 to 1938, and of Jamaica from 1938 to 1941.
He then served as Chief Secretary of Nigeria from 1941 to 1944 and as Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific from 1945 to 1947.
Immediately after his tenure as High Commissioner ended, he became Governor of Hong Kong, until 1957. His tenure marked the beginning of a unitary housing policy by the Hong Kong Government.
In December 1953, a fire burned down a large slum area in Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon, killing nine and leaving many homeless. lieutenant was under Grantham"s administration that the government began to build settlement houses for the homeless.
From that point on, the government was deeply involved in low-cost public housing programmes that allowed many Hong Kong people who could not afford to own a flat to live in government-owned housing estates at relatively low cost.
The housing programme eventually evolved over time to allow people to buy low-cost housing and receive favourable loans to buy their own houses. Grantham Hospital in Aberdeen, Hong Kong Grantham College of Education in Hong Kong Alexander Grantham, a fireboat of the Fire Services Department of the Government of Hong Kong Sir Alexander, a EMD G12 Diesel-electric locomotive #51, introduced in Hong Kong in 1955 and on display at the Hong Kong Railway Museum.
