Sir James Grant, 1st Baronet
- Sir James Grant, 1st Baronet
Sir James Grant, 1st Baronet, (died 1695) was a Scottish lawyer of the seventeenth century.
Appointed King's Advocate, he was created a baronet, "of Dalvey, Elgin", in the baronetage of Nova Scotia on 10 August 1688, with remainder "to his heirs whatsoever". He died in 1695 and was succeeded in his title and estates by a kinsman, Patrick Grant of Inverladinen.[ [http://books.google.com/books?id=JC0BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA699 page 699] of Edmund Lodge's "The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage" (1859), online at books.google.com (accessed 5 February 2008)] ]Lodge's "Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage" states that this family of Grant is "a branch of the ancient family of Grant, of Grant".Footnotes
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