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James Ogilvie-Grant, 9th Earl of Seafield

Scottish peer

Summary

Scottish peer

Field	Value
name	The Earl of Seafield
honorific_prefix	The Right Honourable
honorific_suffix	Bt MP DL
image	File:9thEarlofSeafield.jpg
office	Member of Parliament for Elginshire and Nairnshire
term_start	1868
term_end	1874
predecessor	Charles Cumming-Bruce
successor	The Viscount Macduff
birth_date	27 December 1817
birth_place	Cullen, Banffshire, Scotland
death_date	5 June 1888 (aged 70)
death_place	Kensington, London, England
spouse

parents	Francis Ogilvie-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield
Mary Anne Dunn

Mary Anne Dunn Lieutenant Colonel James Ogilvie-Grant, 9th Earl of Seafield, (27 December 1817 – 5 June 1888), known as The Hon. James Ogilvie-Grant from 1840 to 1884, was a Scottish peer, Conservative politician and soldier.

Seafield was the fourth son of Francis Ogilvie-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield, and Mary Ann Dunn. He was educated at Harrow. He achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in the British Army, serving with the Elginshire Volunteers. At the 1868 general election he was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Elginshire and Nairnshire as a Conservative,{{cite book |orig-date=1977

Lord Seafield was married three times. He married firstly Caroline Louisa Evans (1820–1850), daughter of Eyre Evans, of Kilmallock, County Limerick. He married secondly Constance Helena Abercromby (1829–1873), daughter of Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet, in 1853. She died in 1872 and Seafield married thirdly Georgina Adelaide, daughter of General Frederick Nathaniel Walker and sister of General Edward Forestier-Walker.

Lord Seafield died in June 1888, aged 70, and was succeeded by his eldest son from his first marriage, Francis William Ogilvie-Grant. His second son, Lt.-Col. The Hon. Robert Abercromby Ogilvie-Grant (1855–1925), was an officer in the Gordon Highlanders.

He is buried at the mausoleum at Duthil Old Parish Church and Churchyard, just outside the village of Duthil, Inverness-shire.

References

"Peerages: "S", part 2". Leigh Rayment's peerage pages.
Lord Strathspey. (1983). "A History of Clan Grant". Phillimore.

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