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| Dates | 1698-1715 | ||
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| Location | London | ||
| Vocation | Army officer | ||
| Place of Birth | Freuchie, Moray? | ||
| Marriage | Elizabeth Stuart (d.1708); Anne Smith | ||
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| Place of birth | Source | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; J.B. Paul, The Scots Peerage: A History of the Noble Families of Scotland, 9 vols (Edinburgh, 1904-1914), vii, 479-80 |
Studied on the Continent but returned to London 1698. He married his first wife at St Bride's, Fleet Street. Sat in Scottish Parliament of 1703-7. Grant was appointed one of commissioners to arrange the union with England. Regiment stationed in England during Jacobite rising. Appointed constable of Edinburgh Castle (1715). Died 1719.
