Sir James Grant of Grant, 8th Baronet, (19 May 1738,
Moray
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– 18 February 1811,
Castle Grant) was a Scottish landowner, politician and Chief of
Clan Grant.
He was often referred to as the ''Good Sir James''.
Life
Grant was the son of
Sir Ludovick Grant, 7th Baronet, and Lady Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of
James Ogilvy, 2nd Earl of Seafield
James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater and 2nd Earl of Seafield ( – 9 July 1764) was a Scottish peer.
Early life
James was born . He was the son of James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield and the former Anne Dunbar. His father, the Lord Chancellor of ...
. Born at
Cullen House, Moray, Scotland, he was educated at
Westminster School
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and
Christ's College, Cambridge
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. Grant succeeded his father as
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
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and served as its first Physical President.
From 1790 to 1795 he was MP for
Banffshire
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. He also served as
Lord Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. He was colonel of a
fencible regiment, the Grant Fencible Regiment raised in 1793.
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.
Family
In 1763, Grant married Jean Duff, daughter of Alexander Duff, 2nd of
Hatton
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, and Lady Anne Duff, daughter of
William Duff, 1st Earl Fife
William Duff, 1st Earl Fife (1697 – 30 September 1763), of Braco, Perth and Kinross, Braco, Banff, was a Scottish landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons from 1727 to 1734.
Early life
Du ...
. 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
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(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
James Lind (4 October 1716 – 13 July 1794) was a Scottish physician. He was a pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting one of the first ever clinical trials, he developed the theory that citrus fruits cured scurvy.
Lind ...
.
See also
*
Grant or Strathspey Fencibles
*
Earl of Seafield
References
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