GRANT, James Advocate, Baronet of Dalvey, Sir ²

  General Notes:

"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."

from Wikipedia

"JAMES GRANT, Esq. the eldest, was king's advocate, or solicitor-general, during the reign of James I, seventh King of Scotland, and second of England, and anno 1686, was advanced to the dignity of a Baronet of Scotland, with remainder to his heirs male for ever, by the title of Sir James Grant, of Dalvey : he having acquired that estate, which formerly was in the family of Ballendulloch. Sir James married a daughter of Sir Gideon Scott, of Highchester (by Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Hamilton, of Preston) the sister of Walter Scott, afterwards Earl of Tarras, but had no issue. He died in 1693, and his brother Ludovick having also died unmarried, Dalvey and Sir James's other estates devolved upon Patrick Grant, then of Inverladenan, as the heir of the family, who also claimed the Baronetcy, it having been granted to Sir James and his heirs male whatever.
(The Baronetage of England: Or The History of the English Baronets ..., Volume 5
By William Betham)"

quoted as source by MacFarlane ^{1 2}

James married Agnes SCOTT, daughter of Sir Gideon SCOTT and Margaret HAMILTON, on 8 April 1687.¹ (Agnes SCOTT was born about 1655.)