SEAFIELD, JAMES OGILVY GRANT, 11th Earl of (1876-1915) and 30th chief of clan Grant, was born at Oamaru and educated there and at Christ's College (1890) and Lincoln Agricultural College. He was a lieutenant in the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry. Succeeding his father in 1888, he proceeded to Scotland and devoted his attention to the estate and tenantry at Cullen House, Banffshire. He was deputy-lieutenant of Banffshire (1913). On the outbreak of the war in 1914 Seafield joined the Cameron Highlanders, served for some months as a recruiting officer, and then in France as a captain in the 5th battalion. He died of wounds on 13 Nov 1915. The earl married (1898) Mary Elizabeth Nina, daughter of Dr Joseph Henry Townend (Christchurch). He was succeeded in the earldom by his daughter and heir, Nina Caroline (b. 1906) and in the barony of Strathspey and the baronetcy by his brother, the Hon Trevor Ogilvy Grant (1879-).

Burke, Peerage; Christ's Coll. List; The Times, 15 Nov 1915.

Reference: Volume 2, page 142

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