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XIX.— '2. SIR FRANCIS WILLIAM GRANT OF GRANT, BAnoxKT,<br />

Si.\Tii 1v\i;l <strong>of</strong> >m:afikld, Viscouxt <strong>of</strong> Rioiduavex, L. i;d Ociii.vy <strong>of</strong><br />

F'KSKFOKi) AND ('('], LEX.<br />

MAPvY-ANNE DUNN, iiis fir^^t wife.<br />

LOriSA-EM.AIA MAUNSELL, his second wife.<br />

1840-1853.<br />

Tins nobleman was the fourtli pon <strong>of</strong> Sir Janie.s <strong>Grant</strong> l»y liis wife<br />

Jane DuiF, but owing to the decease <strong>of</strong> t\s'0 elder brothers, he became the<br />

next in .succession to his eldest brothei'. Owing ti) peculiar clrcmnstances,<br />

Francis William <strong>Grant</strong> was at a comparativelv early age brunght into<br />

])i\)iiiliient and responsible positions as Lord Lieutenant <strong>of</strong> the great county<br />

<strong>of</strong> Inverness, representative in Parliament for the county <strong>of</strong> Elgin, and,<br />

above all, as curator for his el

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