Charles William Grant, 5th Baron de Longueuil

Charles William Grant was born in 1782.{{citation| last= L. G. Pine | title=Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 101st edition | pages=2389| publisher= London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1956}} He was the son of Captain David Alexander Grant and Marie-Charles-Joseph Le Moyne, Baronne de Longueuil. He served during the War of 1812 as Lieutenant Colonel of the Boucherville militia battalion and as a staff officer. He was taken prisoner by the Americans on 8 December 1813, and was held hostage in Worcester, Massachusetts.{{QuebecMLCbio|grant-charles-william-193}} He married Caroline Coffin, daughter of General John Coffin and Anne Mathews, on 21 May 1814. He became a member of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada.{{citation| title=Histoire des grandes familles françaises du Canada | pages=190| publisher=Eusèbe Senécal, 1867}} He succeeded to the title of Baron de Longueuil on 17 January 1841. He died on 5 July 1848 at his residence of Alwington House in Kingston.

Ancestry

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|1= 1. Charles William Grant, 5th Baron de Longueuil

|2= 2. David Alexander Grant

|3= 3. Marie-Charles Le Moyne, 4th Baroness de Longueuil

|4= 4. David Grant

|5= 5. Elizabeth Richardson

|6= 6. Charles-Jacques Le Moyne, 3rd Baron de Longueuil

|7= 7. Marie-Anne Catherine Fleury

|8= 8. William Grant

|9= 9. Jean Tyrie

|10= 10. James Richardson

|12= 12. Charles Le Moyne, 2nd Baron de Longueuil

|13= 13. Catherine-Charlotte LeGoues

|14= 14. Joseph Fleury

|15= 15. Catherine Véron

|16= 16. John Grant

|17= 17. Helen Forbes

|18= 18. David Tyrie

|19= 19. Elizabeth Gordon

|24= 24. Charles Le Moyne, 1st Baron de Longueuil

|25= 25. Claude-Elisabeth Souart

|26= 26. Louis-Joseph-Hyacinthe LeGoues

|27= 27. Marguerite Legardeur

|28= 28. Joseph Fleury

|29= 29. Claire Jolliet

|30= 30. Étienne Véron

|31= 31. Catherine Picard

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