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482 SIR, FRANCIS WILLIAM GKAXT, SIXTH i:;Ar,L OF SLAFIELP. [1840-
departure from the former ])lrice tlie hearse was accompanied for some distance
by the Magistrates and Town Council of Cuhen, members of tlie neighbour-
ing" Presbvterv, and mnny of the tenantiy and others, numbering nlxmt six
himdi'ed. At cuch place of importance r)n tlie wny, Cull''i. Foch;i ,
rs,
Elgin,
i.ud Forres, th-' procession was met aiid accompanied sr.iue disi -e by tla*
irincipal inhal itants, wliile tlie bells were tolk'd, the sh'jis clos'' ,
loken of mourning and respect for the deceased was shown by :
and
every
'! classes.
The body of the deceased Earl remained at Castle Grani over night,
and on the morning of the od August was borne to its final rosting-plaei/.
On its way thither it was met by the inhaliitants of CTrantown, whu,
forming into a procession, preceded the funeral cortege. After walking
some distance, they paused and returned, while tlie hearse and carriages
passed on, to be met once more near the gate of Duthil church\-ard by a
large body ni' people from the upper districts of Strathspey and Aberneth\-.
Ari'ived at the gate, the coffin was, amid a special group of mourners, ttorne
to its resting-place in the mausoleum.
" Thus,' writes a contemporary, " followed to the grave bv the tears
of a beloved family, the regrets of an attached tenantry, tlie resjiect of
his own class, and the sympathies of the population oi" a wiih' district, were
deposited beside a long line of illustrious ancestors, the remains of a
noVileman possessed of nnich public spirit and patriotism, distinguished
by many personal virtues, and whose memory will long lie gratefully
cherished through the north."'
Lord Seafield Avas twice married. His first wife was Mary Anne, onh-
dauofhter of John Charles Dunn of Hifdiam House, Sussex, to whom he was
married on 10th May 1811. She died on iTth Eeliruary 1840, before tlie
accession of her husl>and to the earldom. His Lordship married, secondly, on
17th August 1843, Louisa-Emma, second daughter of Robert-George Maunsell
of Limerick. By tliis lady, who survived him, his Lordship had no issue.
By liis first Avife, Lord Seafield had a family of six sons and one
daughter. The sons -were
1. James Grant, born 16th April 1812, at London; died there 15th
March 1815.
' The Bauffslnru Journal titU August ISuS.