Lord Baronet Sir James Grant of Grant Inverness Signed Royalty Wax Seal Document for Sale

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Lord Baronet Sir James Grant of Grant Inverness Signed Royalty Wax Seal Document For Sale

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Lord Baronet Sir James Grant of Grant Inverness Signed Royalty Wax Seal Document:
$374.96

LOT-G357. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique c.1794 British royal document in the name of Lord Lieutenant Baronet Sir James Grant of Grant, hand-signed by Lord Baronet Grant. Royal presentation document features the original red Royal wax seal coat of arms of Baronet Grant. Royal document is original. Paper type is laid. Condition is original. Minor paper loss. Watermarked with royal coat of arms. Royal manuscript document measures 12.0" x 14.75". Museum quality. One of a kind. Authentic and correct.

Sir James Grant of Grant, 8th Baronet, FRSE, FSA Scot (19 May 1738, Moray – 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.

Grant was the son of Sir Ludovick Grant, 7th Baronet, and Lady Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy, 2nd Earl of Seafield. Born at Cullen House, Moray, Scotland, he was educated at Westminster School and Christ's College, Cambridge. 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 and served as its first Physical President.

From 1790 to 1795 he was MP for Banffshire. 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.