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458 SIK JAMKS GIIAXT OK CUA.NT, IJAKONKT. [1773-
alive, and gciieral regret aiul lamentation wlien dead. In every condition
of life slie was a pattern to ln-r sex. She was modest without aflectation ;
she knew liow to stoop without sinking, and to gain people's afleetions
\vithoi;t losing their regard. Her piety was e.Kempl 'v, and h-i- charity
univei:.:.]. In a word, she was truly wise, truly h'i::'iura,hle, and truly
good.'''
Although Sir James sui'vived Lady Grant for six years, and bore his
sore bereaveinent with christian re.signation, he seems virtually to have
ceased to take any part in public life after lier death, lie died on 18th
February ISll, at Castle Gi-ant, and was buried at Duthil, tliough his
ancestors, for several generatii:)ns, had been inten-ed at Holyrood. In
religion Sir James was a Presbyterian, and he reguhii'l}' attended his own
parish churches of Cromdale and Inverallan. Had Sir James lived eight
months longer, he would have succeeded his cousin as fifth Earl of Seatield
—the fourth Earl having died on 5th October 1811, when Sir James's eldest
son, Sir Lewis, succeeded as Earl of Seafield. A contemporary journal, while
recording the death of Sir James Grant, adds a panegyric, Avhich sufficiently
shows the higli estimation in whicli lie was held by liis countiymen.
" The virtues of Sir James, as an individual, will long lie cherislied in
the recollection of his friends ; the excellence of his public chai'acter w^ill be
not less warmly remembered in the district over which he presided,—
presided not so much by holding the property of tlie soil, as by possessing
the attachment, the gratitude, and the confidence of its inhabitants. He
had all the affections, without any of the pride, or any of the harshness of
feudal suj)eriority, and never forgot, in attention to his own interests, or in
the improvement of his extensive estates, the Interests or the comforts of
the people. Amidst tlie varied situations, and some of the severe trials of
life, he was uniformly guided by rectitude of principle, benevolence of
disposition, and the most fervent, though rational piety. From these he
derived support and resignation during the long progress of a painful
disease, and felt their best consolations at the close of a life devoted to his
family, his friends, his dependants, and his country.""
' Shaw's Moray, 1S2G, [>. 41.
- The Eilinl'urgh Evening Coui'aiit, February 28, 1811.