Sir Alexander Grant, 7th Bart.

Sir Alexander Grant of Dalvey, 7th Baronet was born in c.1750, the son of Sir Ludovic Grant of Dalvey, 6th Baronet and his wife Margaret Innes. Ludovic had inherited the Baronetcy following the death of his older brother Sir Alexander Grant, 5th Baronet, in 1772. Ludovic married Margaret Innes (d.1780), daughter of Sir James Innes of Balvenie and Ortoun, 5th Bt. and Margaret Fraser, on 4 July 1741. The couple had six children, three boys and three girls.

Sir Alexander Grant entered Eton on 12 September 1760. On the 13 July 1775 he married Sarah, the daughter and heir of Jeremiah Cray of Ibsley, Hants. The couple lived at Malshanger House near Worting, Hants. They had four children; Sir Alexander Cray Grant 8th Baronet, Louisa Grant, Ludovic James Grant and Sir Robert Innes Grant. The couple's eldest son Alexander Cray was heir to Jamaican plantations with 1,200 'negroes', and a partner in a London West India agency, with ‘above 4,000 hogsheads of sugar annually consigned to him’.

He succeeded as the 7th Baronet on 17 September 1790 and sold the estate at Dalvey. He died on the 26 July 1825.

1. http://www.thepeerage.com/p20046.htm#i200460.

2. Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh, The Eton College register, 1753-1790 alphabetically arranged and edited with biographical notes, (Eton, Spottiswoode, 1921), p.224-225.

GRANT, Alexander Cray (1782-1854), of Malshanger House, nr. Basingstoke, Hants. http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/grant-alexander-cray-1782-1854.