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Macpherson-Grant baronets

{{Short description|Extinct baronetcy in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom}}

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The Macpherson-Grant baronetcy, of Ballindalloch in the County of Elgin, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 July 1838 for George Macpherson-Grant, Member of Parliament for Sutherland intermittently from 1809 to 1826.{{cite web |title=Macpherson Grant, George (1781-1846), of Ballindalloch, Banff and Invereshie, Inverness., History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/macpherson-grant-george-1781-1846 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}} The 3rd Baronet was MP for Elginshire and Nairnshire from 1879 to 1886, and was also deputy lieutenant of Elginshire, Invernesshire and Banffshire.{{cite book |title=Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy and the Knightage |date=1898 |publisher=Kelly's Directories |page=256 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=anQGlj5pG3MC&pg=RA1-PA256 |language=en}}

Macpherson-Grant baronets, of Ballindalloch (1838)

  • Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 1st Baronet FRSE (1781–1846), MP for Sutherland{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire |date=1883 |publisher=Nichols and Sons |location=Westminster |page=412 |url=https://archive.org/details/peeragebaronetag02fost/page/412/mode/1up}}
  • Sir John Macpherson-Grant, 2nd Baronet (1804–1850)
  • Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 3rd Baronet (1839–1907)
  • Sir John Macpherson-Grant, 4th Baronet (1863–1914){{Who's Who|title=Macpherson-Grant, Sir John|id=U188549}}
  • Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 5th Baronet (1890–1951){{Who's Who|title=Macpherson-Grant, Sir George|id=U240256}}
  • Sir Ewan George Macpherson-Grant, 6th Baronet (1907–1983){{Who's Who|title=Macpherson-Grant, Sir Ewan (George)|id=U166706}}

Coat of arms

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|escutcheon = Quarterly: 1st and 4th, gules, a target between three antique crowns or (Grant of Ballindalloch); 2nd and 3rd, per fesse or and azure a lymphad of the first, masts, oars, and tacking proper, ensigned gules between a hand couped fessewise holding a dagger in pale in the dexter, and in the sinister a cross-crosslet fitchee gules, all within a bordure of the last (Macpherson of Invereshie).

|crest = 1st: a dexter hand erect holding a dirk in pale proper; 2nd: a cat sejant-guardant proper with fore-foot erect.

|supporters = Dexter, a naked man proper wreathed about the loins and in his exterior hand a club; sinister, a Highlander armed with a steel cap on his head, a target on his interior arm, and a drawn broadsword in his exterior hand.

|motto = 1st: Ense et animo (With sword and courage)
2nd: Touch not the cat but a glove{{cite book |title=Debrett's peerage & baronetage 1903 |date=1903 |publisher=Macmillan |location=London |pages=266 |url=https://archive.org/details/b24883797/page/266/mode/2up?q=macpherson}}

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