Ludovick Alexander Ogilvy-Grant, 5th Earl of Seafield,

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(22 March 1767 – 26 October 1840) was a Scottish peer and

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. He was Chief of

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. His promising career was cut short by mental instability.

Life

He was born Ludovick Alexander Grant at Moy near

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, the son of

Sir James Grant, 8th Baronet Sir James Grant of Grant, 8th Baronet, (19 May 1738, Moray – 18 February 1811, Castle Grant) was a Scottish landowner, politician and Chief of Clan Grant. He went by the nickname of ''the good Sir James''. Life Grant was the son of Sir Ludov ...

and Jean Duff (1746–1805). He was christened at Dyke a few days later. He was educated at

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and

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, then studied law at the

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and

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Career

In 1788 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

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, James Gregory, and

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. He was elected to the

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for

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in 1790, a seat he held until 1796. From 1791 his health began to fail and by 1805 he was described as being a "most hopeless case of mental derangement". In 1794 he was diagnosed as incurable but did not surrender his seat as an MP until 1796. In February 1811 he succeeded his father as ninth Baronet of Colquhoun. Eight months later, in October 1811, he became the fifth Earl of Seafield on the death of his second cousin James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield. Seafield was the grandson of Lady Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of the prominent statesman James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater and 1st Earl of Seafield. However, he was not in remainder to the earldom of Findlater which title became extinct. He assumed the additional surname of Ogilvy on succeeding in the earldom.

Personal life

Lord Seafield never married. He died at

Cullen House Cullen House is a large house, about south-west of the coastal town of Cullen in Moray, Scotland. It was the seat of the Ogilvies of Findlater, who went on to become the Earls of Findlater and Seafield, and it remained in their family unt ...

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on 26 October 1840, aged 73, and was buried in the Mausoleum in

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. He was succeeded by his younger brother Francis William Ogilvy-Grant who had already taken over all practical duties and curatorship of the estates from the point of his mental instability. His uncles included

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and

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