Sir James Grant-Suttie of Balgone, 4th Baronet

Biographical Summary

"Sir James Suttie, afterwards, since 1818, Grant-Suttie, Baronet [S. 1702], of Balgone, 1st s. and h., 6. 10 May 1759; admitted to Lincoln's Inn, 4 April 1777 ; Advocate, 4 July 1781 ; suc. to the Baronetcy, 25 Nov. 1783 ; was Lieut.-Col. in the army ; M.P. for Haddingtonshire (three Paris.), 1816-26. He, by the death, 7 July 1818, of his mother's sister, Janet, Dow. Countess of Hyndford [S.], inherited, as heir of line to his maternal grandfather, the estate of Preston Grange, and took the name of Grant before that of Sottie. He m. 18 April 1792, Katherine Isabella, 2d da. of James Hamilton, of Bangour. She d. 27 June 1817. He d. 20 May 1836, aged 77."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1904; Vol. IV; page 404