Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies, Sixth of Easter Elchies (1691–1754) was a Scottish

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, rising to the level of

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and

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Life

Grant was the son of Captain Grant of Easter Elchies. He studied law at the

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and was admitted as an

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on 12 February 1712, and obtained a good practice. On 3 November 1732 he was raised to the bench with the title of Lord Elchies, in succession to

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; on 3 March 1737 he succeeded Walter Pringle, Lord Newhall as a lord of justiciary. He died at his home, Inch House, on the southern edge of

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, on 27 July 1754.Grant's Old and New Edinburgh vol.6 p.338 He is buried in the sealed south-west section of

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in Edinburgh, in the area known as the Covenanter's Prison. His family lie with him.

Family

He married Margaret (1697–1746), daughter of Sir Robert Dickson of

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, Baronet. Their children died young: Barbara (1729–1759), David (1731–1747), Mary (1735–1747).

Works

He collected the decisions of the court of session from 1733 to 1757, which were printed in 1813 by William Maxwell Morison. He wrote notes to the ''Institutes'', of

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, which appeared in 1824.

References

1691 births 1754 deaths Senators of the College of Justice 18th-century Scottish judges Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard {{Scotland-law-bio-stub