James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield

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| birth_place = Oamaru, New Zealand

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| death_place = Flanders, France

| death_cause = Died of wounds

| resting_place = Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

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| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Townend|1898}}

| parents = Francis Ogilvie-Grant, 10th Earl of Seafield
Anne Evans

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Captain James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield, {{Postnom|country=UK|JP|DL|sep=,|size=100%}} (18 April 1876 – 12 November 1915), styled Viscount Reidhaven in 1888, was a Scottish peer and soldier. He is numbered as the 30th Chief of Clan Grant.

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Early life

Seafield was born on 18 April 1876 in Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand.{{cite Australasia|Seafield, Earl of}}{{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 was the eldest son of Francis Ogilvie-Grant, 10th Earl of Seafield and Anne Trevor Corry Evans, daughter of Major George Evans. He had six siblings, including his brother, Trevor Ogilvie-Grant.

He started his education at Warwick House preparatory school in Christchurch.{{cite web |title=Windsor Hotel |url= http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Places/Buildings/Windsor-Hotel/ |publisher=Christchurch City Libraries |accessdate=15 October 2014}} He then attended Christ's College and Lincoln College.{{cite news |title=Earl of Seafield |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=NOT19160104.2.41 |accessdate=17 October 2014 |work=North Otago Times |volume=CII |issue=13461 |date=4 January 1916 |page=7}} He succeeded to the earldom of Seafield and as 30th Chief of Clan Grant on his father's death in 1888. He lived in Auckland for a time before his marriage in 1898.

Career

Seafield served as a Justice of the Peace for Banffshire, Morayshire, and Inverness-shire. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Elgin.{{London Gazette| issue = 28769| date = 31 October 1913| page = 7593}}

Seafield served as a lieutenant in the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, New Zealand Forces. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment, on 21 June 1902.{{London Gazette|issue=27454|page=4513| date=15 July 1902}} He fought in World War I as a captain in the 3rd Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, and was then attached to the 5th Battalion. The Cameron Highlanders' regimental commander was Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel who described Seafield as "brave as a lion".{{Cite book |last=Lord Strathspey |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofclangra00stra/mode/2up |title=A History of Clan Grant |publisher=Phillimore |year=1983 |isbn=978-0-85033-442-5 |pages=55}} In November 1915, he was supposed to be on leave from action, but his leave was cancelled and he died on 12 November 1915, aged 39, from wounds received in action.{{cite news| title=Death of Lord Seafield |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19160107.2.23 |accessdate=14 October 2014 |work=The Evening Post |volume=XCI |issue=5 |date=7 January 1916 |page=3}}

Personal life

File:Mary Elizabeth Nina Townend (1876–1962).png, 1898]]

On 22 June 1898 at Christchurch, Seafield married Mary Elizabeth Nina Townend, daughter of Dr. Joseph Henry Townend (1847–1902), {{Postnom|country=UK|JP}} and heiress of Annie Quayle Townend.{{cite news |title=The Social Sphere |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=TO18980625.2.14 |accessdate=14 October 2014 |work=The New Zealand Observer |volume=XVIII |issue=1017 |date=25 June 1898 |page=8}}{{cite book |title=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Canterbury Provincial District |year=1903 |url= http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Cyc03Cycl-t1-body1-d3-d26-d2.html#name-420961-mention |publisher=The Cyclopedia of New Zealand |author=Cyclopedia Company Limited |accessdate= 14 October 2014 |location=Christchurch |chapter=Medical}} They had one daughter:

Lady Nina Caroline Ogilvie-Grant (1906–1969), who married Derek Herbert Studley-Herbert in 1930.{{cite news |last1=TIMES |first1=Wireless to THE NEW YORK |date=3 January 1930 |title=COUNTESS OF SEAFIELD IS REPORTED ENGAGED; Wealthy Scottish Peeress Said to Be Betrothed to Derek S. Herbert, Eton Athlete. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1930/01/03/archives/countess-of-seafield-is-reported-engaged-wealthy-scottish-peeress-s.html |access-date=8 December 2023 |work=The New York Times}}

Lord Seafield died on 12 November 1915, aged 39, from wounds received at Flanders in Belgium. He is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.{{cite web |title=Ogilvie-Grant, James |url= http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/149196/OGILVIE-GRANT,%20JAMES |publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |accessdate=17 October 2014}} Seafield 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. The earldom and the other subsidiary Scottish peerage titles could be passed on to female heirs and, along with the vast estates, were inherited by his daughter. He was the grandfather of Ian Ogilvie-Grant, 13th Earl of Seafield.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rg11SQAACAAJ |title=Burke's Peerage |year=2003 |edition=107th |volume=3 |page=3552 |isbn=978-0-9711966-2-9 |language=en |last1=Mosley |first1=Charles |publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry }}