. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . y reigns around his bier,Befitting stainless knight. Firm as Craigellachie he stood, Aye holding by the right;That which was just, and true, and good. Weighed more with him than might. What sweetness dwells in mouth and eyes! How placid is the brow !The loving heart no longer sighs. All, all is peaceful now. So might have looked Sir Galahad In quest of Holy GrailAs on he rode in heart right glad. Knowing he could not fail. As Laird o Grant, Chief of the Cla
. The chiefs of Grant. Memoirs (Correspondence. - Charters.) [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . y reigns around his bier,Befitting stainless knight. Firm as Craigellachie he stood, Aye holding by the right;That which was just, and true, and good. Weighed more with him than might. What sweetness dwells in mouth and eyes! How placid is the brow !The loving heart no longer sighs. All, all is peaceful now. So might have looked Sir Galahad In quest of Holy GrailAs on he rode in heart right glad. Knowing he could not fail. As Laird o Grant, Chief of the Clan,Grandly himself bore he— A leal true-hearted HighlandmanOf noblest ancest^. For him full many a tears been shed,By those that loved him well ; But tears will not bring back the from the heart they well. His couch with flowers loves hand hath strewn; Strathspey, Glen-Urquhart, Cullens stream, Nor purer they than he ; Will miss his presence dear; The spirit from the clay thats flown This world to me seems more a dream Dearly them loved to see. Now he s no longer here. JAMES M-IXTYRE. Seafield Mansk, 2lst February SIR IAN CHARLES GRANT OGILVIE BARONET, EIGHTH EARL OF SEAFIELD&c. SECOND BARON STRATHSPEY 0 F STR AT H S P E Y. BORN 1851, SUCCEEDED 1881. 495 XXI.—SIR IAN CHAELES GEANT OGILVIE, Baronet, Eighth Eaeeof seafield, etc., second baron strathspey of stkathspey. Born 1851. Succeeded 1881. The present chief of the Grants represents the twenty-first generationin direct lineal male descent from Sir Laurence Grant, who was Sheriff ofthe county of Inverness in the year 1258. The Master of Grant was bornin Moray Place, Edinburgh, on 7th October 1851. After being under thecare of tutors, he studied for some years at Eton. His father havingserved in the navy and his grandfather having been long an officer in thearmy, following in the footsteps of the latter, the Master of Grant madechoice of the army as a profession, and received his first commission as acorne
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