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James Grant was commonly called "The Good Sir James". He was educated at Westminster and Cambridge. He founded the town of Grantown in 1766, upon what was then a barren moor. He was M.P. for Elgin and Forres from 1761 to 1768, and for Banffshire from 1790 till 1795. On his succession to the estates he found them heavily burdened, as a result of the loyal services of preceding chiefs to the Government, and in consequence he sold some of the outlying properties to the value of £52,500. He endeavoured to obtain some compensation from Government for the sums expended in the public service, and the Exchequer seems to have admitted that he had a just claim for £12,540. Ultimately in 1795 he was given the appointment of General Cashier of the Excise in Scotland, which he held till his death.²¹

During his tour in the Highlands Robert Burns paid Sir James Grant and family a fleeting visit at Castle Grant. In 1793 when France declared war on Britain he levied the first regiment of Fencibles, and in the following year he raised the 97th Regiment. He was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Inverness-shire in 1794, an office which he resigned in 1809.²²

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