The chiefs of Grant - Electric Scotland

18S1.] FUNKHAl. IN TUr, MAVSOLEUM AT DrTlllI.. 49."]
tliere wero also public (k'lnon.stratidiis of ivnai-d. At C'asUi.' (Iniiii, liis
ancestral Ikhuc, tlie Earl's remains lay (luring tlic night, and in the early
iiiorning )nany came desiring to luok ujion the coillii ol'tlirii' helovcd ehici'.
NotAvitli.;! anding a heavy snowstorm, many hundred' assemhiid to
ofl'ei- ihe last 'okens ol'respeet, and to assist in performing '!!•> i'une'. ;
In ihis part of the proceedings, tl. •
sceiie,
rites.
even more thaii .m the ;.rcvi(nis
(lay. represented a sorrowing clan mourning for their lost chii: I'. The
funei->d cortege, as it moved from Castle Grant to Grant own, cntained
upwards of a thousand mourners, wlio walked slo\\ly to the music ol' the
" Flowers of the Forest," and the " Land o' the Leal," played hy the
j)i]iers \sh(i headed the procession, tlio\igh the Gastle Cirant pi]ies, whu-h
the late Earl had loved to hear, were on that day luished and silent. At
Duthil, amid the .strains of the pipes, the body was borne to the mauso-
leum ;
and
the latest Laird of Grant was then laid to rest with his fathers
in the place which has been tlieir burying-place for upwards of three
hundred years.
'Jdie late Earl of Seaiield man-ied, on r2th August 1850, the Ilononr-
able Caroline Stuart, youngest daughter of Ilobert Walter, eleventh Lord
Blantyre, who survives his Lordslilj). This is neither tlie time unr the
place to speak of that happy union, whicli was unclouded to the end ;
and
his last gentle sigli was breathed in perfect peace in tlie presence of his
loving son and devoted wife, who thi-ough life had been such an heljmiate
to him. Their only child became the heir and representative of the long-
descended Lairds of Grant, as well as of the noble house of Seatield.
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