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James Grant of Grant, John Mytton , the Hon. Thomas Robinson , and Thomas Wynne by Nathaniel Dance-Holland , ca. 1760.Castle Grant from the front
Sir James Grant of Grant, 8th Baronet , FRSE , FSA Scot Moray – 18 February 1811, Castle Grant ) was a Scottish landowner, politician and Chief of Clan Grant .[1] Good Sir James .[2]
Grant was the son of Sir Ludovick Grant, 7th Baronet , and Lady Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy, 2nd Earl of Seafield .[3] Cullen House , Moray, Scotland, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge .[4] Member of Parliament for Elginshire in 1761, a seat he held until 1768.
In 1773 Grant succeeded his father as eighth Baronet of Colquhoun. In 1783 he was a co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and served as its first Physical President.[5]
From 1790 to 1795 he was MP for Banffshire . He also served as Lord Lieutenant of Inverness-shire . He was colonel of a fencible regiment, the Grant Fencible Regiment raised in 1793.[6]
He died at the family seat of Castle Grant in February 1811, aged 72, and was succeeded by his son Ludovick Alexander Grant , who later that year succeeded his second cousin as fifth Earl of Seafield.
In 1763, Grant married Jean Duff, daughter of Alexander Duff, 2nd of Hatton , and Lady Anne Duff, daughter of William Duff, 1st Earl Fife . They had 14 children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. Lady Grant died in 1805.
Their children included Ludovick Alexander Ogilvy-Grant, 5th Earl of Seafield FRSE (1767–1840) and Col. Francis William Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield (1778–1853).
His sister, Penuel Grant, married the Scottish author, Henry Mackenzie .
Grant was a cousin to James Lind .
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Lord Strathspey (1984). A History of Clan Grant . Phillimore. p. 108.
^ "Grant, James (GRNT756J)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF) . The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X
^ "The Grant Fencible Regiment". Leeds Intelligencer . 13 May 1793. p. 1.
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