ment of the line, enrolled as the 97th or Strathspey foot. It served for a time as marines on board Lord Howe's fleet, in 1794, and was broken up at Portsmouth and drafted into other regiments the year after, the flank companies, which were very fine, being transferred entire to the Black Watch. His great local influence and popularity thus enabled Grant to add thirteen hundred men to the defensive force of the country within a few months, exclusive of the recruits raised for the 97th by other officers.
Grant married, in 1763, Jean, daughter of Alexander Duff of Hatton, Aberdeenshire, and by her, who died in 1805, had three sons and three daughters. His eldest son, Sir Alexander Ludovick Grant, succeeded in 1811 to the earldom and estates of Seafield. Grant died at Castle Grant, where the greater part of his useful life had been spent, on 18 Feb. 1811, after a lingering illness, aged 72.
[Foster's Peerage, under 'Seaforth;' Anderson's Scottish Nation, ii. 362; General David Stewart's Scottish Highlanders (Edinburgh, 1822), ii. 255-6, 351-7, lxxxvii.]
GRANT, JAMES (1743?–1835), Scotch advocate, born about 1743, was the son of James Grant of Corrimony in Urquhart, Inverness-shire, a Jacobite of 1745, by his wife Jean, daughter of James Ogilvy of Kempcairn. He was admitted advocate in 1767. Being early distinguished for his liberal politics, he numbered among his friends Henry Erskine, Sir James Mackintosh, Francis Jeffrey, Leonard Horner, and other eminent men. He died father of the Scottish bar in 1835 at Lakefield, Glen Urquhart, Inverness-shire, having attained the patriarchal age of ninety-two (Gent. Mag. new ser. iv. 558-9). He was author of:
- ‘Essays on the Origin of Society, Language, Property, Government, Jurisdiction, Contracts, and Marriage. Interspersed with Illustrations from the Greek and Gaelic Languages,’ 4to, London, 1785.
- 'A Letter addressed to the Heritors or Landed Proprietors of Scotland, holding their lands of subject superiors or mediately of the Crown,’ 8vo, Edinburgh, 1790, published anonymously under the pseudonym of ‘Scoto-Britannus.’
- ‘Thoughts on the Origin and Descent of the Gael; with an Account of the Picts, Caledonians, and Scots; and observations relative to the authenticity of the poems of Ossian,’ 8vo, Edinburgh, 1814; another edition, 8vo, London, 1828.
[Private information; Cat. of Printed Books in Library of Faculty of Advocates, iii. 482; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Anderson's Scottish Nation, ii. 366.]
GRANT, JAMES (1802–1879), journalist, born at Elgin, Morayshire, in 1802, when nineteen became a contributor to the ‘Statesman’ and other metropolitan papers. In 1827 he (with others) founded the ‘Elgin Courier,’ of which he became editor. In 1833, still keeping an interest in the ‘Courier,’ he came to London, where he was employed first on the ‘Morning Chronicle,’ and then on the ‘Morning Advertiser.’ He was editor of the latter paper from 1850 to 1871. After this connection ceased he published his chief work, ‘The Newspaper Press, its Origin, Progress, and Present Position’(3 vols., 1871-2; German translation by Duboc, Hannover, 1873), readable enough, but marred by true journalistic looseness and inaccuracy. Grant was a devout Calvinist, and many of his works touch on theological subjects. He died at 35 Cornwall Road, Bayswater, 23 May 1879. Grant conducted several other London periodicals. These were: ‘The London Saturday Journal’ (new series, 1839, &c.); ‘Grant's London Journal’ (new series, 1840, &c.), and the ‘Christian Standard’ (1872, &c.) He also wrote: 1. ‘Life of Mary Queen of Scots,’ 1828. 2. ‘Random Recollections of the House of Commons, and Random Recollections of the House of Lords,’ 1836; a second series under title of ‘The British Senate,’ 1838. 3. ‘The Great Metropolis,’ 1836 and 1837. 4. ‘The Bench and the Bar,’ 1837. 5. ‘Sketches in London,’ 1838; new edit. 1861. 6. ‘The Metropolitan Pulpit, or Sketches of the most Popular Preachers in London,’ 1839. 7. ‘Travels in Town,’ 1839. 8. ‘Portraits of Public Characters,’ 1841. 9. ‘Lights and Shadows of London Life,’ 1842. 10. ‘Pictures of Popular People,’ 1842. 11. ‘Joseph Jenkin, or Leaves from the Life of a Literary Man,’ 1843. 12. ‘Impressions of Ireland and the Irish,’ 1844. 13. ‘Paris and its People,’ 1844. 14. ‘Records of a Run through Continental Countries, embracing Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and France,’ 2 vols., 1853. 15. ‘The Brother Born for Adversity,’ 1856. 16. ‘Who is Right, and Who Wrong? correspondence between T. Binney and J. Grant … including Mr. Grant's suppressed rejoinder,’ 1857. 17. ‘God is Love,’ 1858. 18. ‘The Comforter,’ 1859. 19. ‘Our Heavenly Home,’ 1859. 20. ‘Personal Visit to the Chief Scenes of the Religious Revivals in the North of Ireland,’ 1859. 21. ‘The Glorious Gospel of Christ,’ 1861. 22. ‘God's Unspeakable Gift,’ 1861. 23. ‘The Foes of Our Faith and How to Defeat Them,’ 1862. 24. ‘Grace and Glory,’ 1863. 25. ‘The Dying Command of Christ,’ 1863. 26. ‘Truths for the Day of Life and the Hour of Death,’ 2nd
