John Ogilvie-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield
John Charles Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield KT (4 September 1815 – 18 February 1881), styled Viscount Reidhaven from 1840 to 1853, was a Scottish nobleman. He is numbered as the 26th Chief of Clan Grant.[1]
Seafield was the eldest son of Francis William Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield, and Mary Ann Dunn. He succeeded his father as Earl of Seafield in 1853.[2] [3] [4] From 1853 until 1858 he sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer. The latter year he was created Baron Strathspey, of Strathspey in the Counties of Inverness and Moray, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[5] This title gave Seafield an automatic seat in the House of Lords. He was further honoured in 1879 when he was made a Knight of the Thistle.[6]
Lord Seafield married the Honourable Caroline Henrietta Stuart in 1850.[7] He died in February 1881, aged 65, and was buried next to his father at the mausoleum at Duthil Old Parish Church and Churchyard, just outside the village of Duthil, Inverness-shire.[8] He was succeeded in his titles by his son Ian Charles Ogilvy-Grant.[9] [10] [11] Lady Seafield died in 1911.[12] [13]
References
- ^ http://www.clangrant.org/index.aspx?pid=19 Accessed April 2017.
- ^ Fraser, Sir William (1884). Chiefs of Grant. Edinburgh. pp. 487–93.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Accessed (2017) via archive.org. - ^ Cassillis, The Earl of (1911). The Rulers of Strathspey. Inverness: The Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Publishing Co. Ltd. pp. 164–67. Accessed (2017) via archive.org.
- ^ Strathspey, The Rt. Hon. Lord (1983). A History of Clan Grant. Chichester, Sussex: Phillimore & Co. Ltd. pp. 42–3.
- ^ Fraser 1884, pp. 487–88, 490.
- ^ Fraser 1884, pp. 491.
- ^ Fraser 1884, pp. 493.
- ^ Fraser 1884, pp. 491–93.
- ^ Fraser 1884, pp. 495–98.
- ^ Cassillis 1911, pp. 167–69.
- ^ Strathspey 1983, pp. 43.
- ^ The Right Honourable Caroline Countess of Seafield. A tribute volume, 'Mostly reprinted from Banffshire Journal'. 1911. Accessed (2017) via archive.org.
- ^ Strathspey 1983, pp. 44–9.