The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

474 Sill FitANCIS WII-I.L\M CKANT, SIXTH 1;A1;L OF SEAl'irf,!). [ISIO-
Major in tlio re^-iniont of roncililos I'aised In- Ftaser of Lovat, and in 17".)(),
was inadc' Tiieutcnant-C'olohL'l in tlic same ix'^inicnl,' lo linld Ins rank imly
Avliilo tlie fcncibles 'were embodied. Vn 2ud .lainiary I7i)i), liowevor, lie
received a eeiinrnisslon as Lieutenant-C'olMncl in a i' -.liiient
"'
lencilik'S
commanded 1)\- L'olonel Arcln'iald i\l'.Neill (of Colon-:iN ), \vil^ jiernianent
rank in tlie ari)!\ ."
Cok)nel ]\l'Xeill's regiment, described as tlie Tliird ArSeafield in 1840.
Colonel Grant thus served in the House of Conmions for the lono-
period of thirty-eight years. During that period the agitation on tlie
subject of the Peform Bill took place. Colonel Grant opposed the passing
of this measure, but when the Bill became law, he frankly accepted it, and
in his addiess to his constituents, in view of the dissolution of Parliament
which followed, he declared that though he had opposed the Ijill as inex-
' Commissions, 2Pth Novi-mbcr 17'J4 and 1st -' Stewart's SkctcLes of tlic Higlilaiulcrs, vol. ii.
October IT'JG, at Ciillt-n llousu. i>. 398.
^ Commission, i'jkl. * Vol. ii. of this «urk, ]i. 'i\0.