GRANT, John Charles Adolphus Baron of Blairfindy (in French service), Colonel 2 3
- Born: About 1735 4
- Marriage (1): UNKNOWN, Name Countess of Ancelet in 1781 1
- Died: 23 April 1784 4
User ID: N98.
General Notes:
"Baron Grant de Blairfindy (d.1784, in his 48th year), knight of St. Louis, soldier, spy, and spymaster in the French service. From 1767 he was a secret agent in Englandof Louis XV's minister, the Duc de Choiseul (1719-85), with some further reports being sent by Grant de Blairfindy to Choiseul's successors, following the great minister's fall from power in 1770. All such spying must soon thereafter have come to the attention of the British government, for Grant de Blairfindy's reports were found amongst the papers of Lord Chatham ('The Elder Pitt') at the time of his death in 1778." [....]
"John Charles Adolphus Grant was schooled at Ratisbon and brought up in Germany by his relative (son parent), the illustrious James Francis Edward Keith (1696-1758),228 field marshal of Frederick the Great."
from Mergers in Messengery
John married Name UNKNOWN Countess of Ancelet in 1781.1 (Name UNKNOWN Countess of Ancelet was born about 1750.)
Marriage Notes:
A nephew of the Abbe Grant went to France after the '45 rebellion. Joannis Caroli Adolphi Grant de Blairfindy achieved the rank of Colonel de la Legion Royale in 1774 and was later created Baron de Blairfindy, Aide Marchal General des Logis des Armes du Roi. He married the Countess d'Ancelet in 1781. They had a son, Alexander. Colonel Grant, Baron de Blairfindy, died in 1784."
from The Grants of Blairfindy 1
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