Macpherson-Grant Baronets
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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 on 25 July 1838 for George Macpherson-Grant, Member of Parliament
Member of Parliament
A Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...

 for Sutherland
Sutherland (UK Parliament constituency)
Sutherland was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918. It represented essentially the traditional county of Sutherland, electing one Member of Parliament...

 intermittently from 1809 to 1826. The third Baronet was MP for Elginshire and Nairnshire
Elginshire and Nairnshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Elginshire and Nairnshire was a county constituency in Scotland. From 1832 to 1918, it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.- Boundaries :...

 from 1879 to 1886, and was also Deputy Lieutenant
Deputy Lieutenant
In the United Kingdom, a Deputy Lieutenant is one of several deputies to the Lord Lieutenant of a lieutenancy area; an English ceremonial county, Welsh preserved county, Scottish lieutenancy area, or Northern Irish county borough or county....

 of Elginshire, Invernesshire and Banffshire
Banffshire
The County of Banff is a registration county for property, and Banffshire is a Lieutenancy area of Scotland.The County of Banff, also known as Banffshire, was a local government county of Scotland with its own county council between 1890 and 1975. The county town was Banff although the largest...

. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1983. The Ballindalloch Castle
Ballindalloch Castle
Ballindalloch Castle is a castle between Dufftown and Grantown-on-Spey, in the Moray region of Scotland....

 estate was inherited by his daughter Clare Nancy Russell
Clare Nancy Russell
Clare Nancy Russell is a Scottish Landowner, the Lady Laird of Ballindalloch Castle on Speyside and has been Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire since 2002...

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Macpherson-Grant Baronets, of Ballindalloch (1838)

  • Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 1st Baronet (1781-1846)
  • Sir John Macpherson-Grant, 2nd Baronet (1804-1850)
  • Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 3rd Baronet
    Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 3rd Baronet
    Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 3rd Baronet was a Scottish landowner, cattle breeder and Liberal politician.Macpherson-Grant was the son of Sir John Macpherson-Grant, 2nd Baronet of Ballindalloch and his wife Marion Helen Campbell, daughter of Mungo Nutter Campbell...

    (1839-1907)
  • Sir John Macpherson-Grant, 4th Baronet (1863-1914)
  • Sir George Macpherson-Grant, 5th Baronet (1890-1951)
  • Sir Ewan George Macpherson-Grant, 6th Baronet (1907-1983)
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