the commission. During this period the British government released, with other documents, an extended letter from Graham in Beirut to Dufferin on the violence. At the end of 1861 Macmillan & Co. announced a book Syria as a Province of the Ottoman Empire by Graham; but it apparently never appeared. Societies Graham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and of the Linnean Society, in 1858. He joined the Society of Dilettanti in 1863. He belonged to the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Royal Geographical Society, of which he was Foreign Secretary from 1866 to 1871. He also belonged to the Geological Society. Later life While Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon was Colonial Secretary in 1866–7, Graham acted as his private secretary. In 1870–1 Graham was in Canada, negotiating on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company. In 1873 he travelled from Arkhangelsk to Astrakhan, continuing through Dagestan and Georgia. He was accompanied by John Francis Campbell. At Port-Petrovsk on the Caspian (Makhachkala) they obtained letters from Mikhail Loris-Melikov that facilitated their progress through Dagestan. Graham's paper on the Avar language and glossary were translated for the first time into Russian in 2014, by B. M. Atayev. Graham was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Grenada in January 1876, holding the post to 1877. He was created CMG. He succeeded his brother Lumley in the baronetcy in 1890. In later life, Graham resided at Edmond Castle. He died at Cannes, on 9 May 1895. Family Graham married in 1874 Louisa Frederica Hervey, daughter of Lord Charles Hervey. They had two daughters: Violet Evelyn Cecilia, married in 1900 William Graham-Harrison, who added Graham to his surname; they had two sons and a daughter. Beatrix Margaret Irene (died 1921), married 1906 as his first wife the Rev. William Herbert Mackean (1877–1960); they had five daughters and a son. Notes 1835 births 1895 deaths English diplomats British colonial governors and administrators Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom