The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

•ISO SIR FKANCIS WILLIAM GKANl', Sl.\-|'ll KAUL OF SKAFH:r.P. [ISJO-
Sfalic'lcl, tlii'ii Liciiti'iuiiit-^ 'uli'iit,! (.ii.-iiit, \\:is iniidr ;x master mason in con-
nection \siili llic ' ^Lotlier ljuil^i;v oi'St. .Inlm, Nn. L!4."'
^•eneral
The year at'ler liis succession as Ivtii orSealield, liis Lurtlsliip was, at tlie
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'ctiun on jtli Ani;-ust ISH.hcinL;- llie lir^l after lii,- siiccessidii,
chosen ';,e of the sixtci'n re]>i'e- en(ali\ - [leers of Sccitla;; '.a juis!:! m winch he
occupied until his deatli in ISa". in the House of [jni. '-., Jjonl '
ralleld
^ave
the sani'- sedulous attention to his duties as he had done j'or so nianv }'ears
in the Jjower Mouse. Jjetsveen the two Houses he acquired an ahnost
contiruious parliamentaj-y experience of half a. centmy. In polities Iiis
Loi'dship \vas a (Jonser\"ative, and duriny his h'ni;' puMic career loyally
supported lus I'arty. He was a warm supporter oi' bir liol>ert I'eel in the
early ]iart of that statesman's career, ami in 1821), ^vhen liis kinsman ^Ir.
Charles Grant, afterwards Lord Glenelg, ^Ir. Huskisson, and others seceded
from the Wellino-tou and l\'el administration, Lord Seafield, then the H