Sir James Grant, 1st Baronet (died 1695) was a Scottish lawyer of the seventeenth century. Appointed

King's Advocate The King's Advocate (or Queen's Advocate when the monarch was female) was one of the Law Officers of the Crown. He represented the Crown in the ecclesiastical courts of the Church of England, where cases were argued not by barristers but by ad ...

, he was created a

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, "of Dalvey, Elgin", in the

baronetage of Nova Scotia Baronets are a rank in the British aristocracy. The current Baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier but existing Baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland, and Great Britain. Baronetage of England (1611–1705) King James I ...

on 10 August 1688, with remainder "to his heirs whatsoever". He died in 1695 and was succeeded in his title and estates by his younger brother Ludovic. Lodge's ''Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage'' states that this family of Grant is "a branch of the ancient family of Grant, of Grant".page 699
of Edmund Lodge's ''The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage'' (1859), online at books.google.com (Retrieved 5 February 2008)

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* 1695 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Lord Advocates Year of birth missing {{Scotland-law-stub