Francis Ogilvie-Grant, 10th Earl of Seafield

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1847|3|9|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland

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| death_place = Oamaru, New Zealand

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| parents = James Ogilvie-Grant, 9th Earl of Seafield
Caroline Evans

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Trevor Ogilvie-Grant, 4th Baron Strathspey

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Francis William Ogilvie-Grant, 10th Earl of Seafield (9 March 1847 – 3 December 1888), styled Viscount Reidhaven from 1884 to 1888, was a Scottish peer who emigrated to New Zealand.

Early life

Seafield was born on 9 March 1847 in Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland.{{cite news |title=Death of the Earl of Seafield |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW18881207.2.123 |accessdate=13 October 2014 |work=Otago Witness |issue=1933 |date=7 December 1888 |page=29}} He was the eldest son of The Hon. James Ogilvie-Grant, by his first wife, Caroline Louisa Evans (1820–1850), daughter of Eyre Evans, Esq. of Ash Hill, and Anna Maunsell.{{cite news |title=Death of the Earl of Seafield |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OAM18881203.2.9 |accessdate=13 October 2014 |work=The Oamaru Mail |volume=X |issue=4282 |date=3 December 1888 |page=2}} After his education at Harrow, he served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy and then joined the merchant navy.

Career

Seafield (then known as Frank Grant) arrived in New Zealand in 1870.{{cite news |title=Lady Pauline Ogilvie-Grant Nicholson; Aristocrat |url= http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/obituaries/lady-pauline-ogilvie-grant-nicholson-aristocrat-1.1004143 |accessdate=15 October 2014 |work=The Herald |date=5 February 2010}} He bought a farm in the Waiareka Valley in a locality known as Te Aneraki to the west of Oamaru in North Otago.{{cite news |title=Death of Countess |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NZH19351022.2.108 |accessdate=14 October 2014 |work=The New Zealand Herald |volume=LXXII |issue=22246 |date=22 October 1935 |page=10}} He lost his money through his farming pursuits, and in the late 1870s the impoverished family moved to Oamaru town.

He stood twice for election in the {{NZ electorate link|Oamaru}} electorate to the New Zealand House of Representatives. The first time, he contested the {{NZ election link|1884}} against the incumbent, Samuel Shrimski. When Shrimski was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1885, Grant contested the resulting {{By-election link|Oamaru|1885}}, but lost against Thomas Hislop.

In 1884 following the death of his cousin, Ian Ogilvie-Grant, 8th Earl of Seafield, the title devolved to the former's uncle (Frank's father). As the heir apparent to the earldom, Grant unexpectedly became Viscount Reidhaven. When his father died on 5 June 1888, he became the Earl of Seafield in the Peerage of Scotland. A subsidiary title was Baron Strathspey in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Seafield died on 3 December 1888 from a heart condition. He is buried at the Oamaru Old Cemetery.{{cite web |title=Cemeteries Burial Search |url=http://www.waitaki.govt.nz/services/SitePages/CemeteriesSearch.aspx?Forename=%20&Surname=Seafield&ExactForename=false&ExactSurname=false |accessdate=14 October 2014 |publisher=Waitaki District |archive-date=17 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017173649/http://www.waitaki.govt.nz/services/SitePages/CemeteriesSearch.aspx?Forename=%20&Surname=Seafield&ExactForename=false&ExactSurname=false |url-status=dead }} He was succeeded by his oldest son in the earldom, James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield, who at the time was twelve years old. He was fatally wounded in World War I in 1915, and was succeeded in the barony of Strathspey, the baronetcy of Colquhoun and as Chief of Clan Grant by his younger brother Hon. Trevor Ogilvie-Grant.{{cite news |date=7 January 1916 |title=Death of Lord Seafield |volume=XCI |page=3 |work=The Evening Post |issue=5 |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19160107.2.23 |accessdate=14 October 2014}} The earldom and the other subsidiary Scottish peerages could be passed on to female heirs, and were inherited by Nina Ogilvie-Grant, 12th Countess of Seafield.

After Lord Seafield died, his wife lived for some time in Auckland and Tauranga before moving to England.{{cite news |date=22 October 1935 |title=Dowager Countess |volume=LXVI |page=3 |work=Auckland Star |issue=250 |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=AS19351022.2.13 |accessdate=14 October 2014}}{{cite news |date=15 January 1906 |title=The Bay of Plenty Times and Thames Valley Warden |volume=XXXI |page=2 |work=Bay of Plenty Times |issue=4850 |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=BOPT19060115.2.4 |accessdate=15 October 2014}} She died at Brighton on 16 October 1935.

Personal life

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On 24 November 1874, Grant married his first cousin Anne Trevor Corry ("Nina") Evans, daughter of Major George Thomas Evans and Louisa Barbara Corry. They had seven children:

James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield (1876–1915),{{cite news |title=EARL OF SEAFIELD KILLED.; Was a Captain in Cameron Hlghlanders and Chief of His Clan. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1915/11/16/archives/earl-of-seafield-killed-was-a-captain-in-cameron-hlghlanders-and.html |access-date=8 December 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=16 November 1915}} married the heiress Mary Elizabeth Nina Townend, daughter of Dr. Joseph Henry Townend, {{Postnom|country=UK|JP}} of Christchurch, in 1898.
Lady Caroline Louisa Ogilvie-Grant (1877–1945), died unmarried.Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3552.
Trevor Ogilvie-Grant, 4th Baron Strathspey (1879–1948), married Alice Louisa Hardy-Johnston, daughter of Thomas Masterman Hardy-Johnston, in 1905.
Lady Sydney Montagu Ogilvie-Grant (1882–1944), married Rev. William Spring Rice in 1912.
Lady Ina Eleanora Ogilvie-Grant (1882–1893), who died young.
Lady Nina Geraldine Ogilvie-Grant (1884–1951), married Sir Lees Knowles, 1st Baronet in 1915.{{cite news |title=Obituary |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=CHP19281205.2.141 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |work=The Press |volume=LXIV |issue=19485 |date=5 December 1928 |page=16}}
Hon. John Charles Ogilvie-Grant (1887–1893).