THE SEAFIELD EARLDOM.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16212, 15 May 1918, Page 7

THE SEAFIELD EARLDOM.

A correspondent .writes: —Your own correspondent in Sydney, on this matter, says: "It may be that the title must be held in the male line." If it were so, it would go to no one whatsoever of the name of Ogilvie-Grant.

James Ogilvie, 2nd Baron Ogilvie of Deskford, was created in 1638, Earl of Findlater; having no male issue, he obtained in 1641 a renewed patent conferring the titles of Earl and Countess of Findlater upon his son-in-law, bir Patrick Ogilvie, of Inchmartin, and his own (laughter by Elizabeth, Sir Patrick's wife. Their grandson, James Ogilvie, 4th Earl of Findlater, and Baron Ogilvie, of Deskford, had been created iu his father's lifetime Viscount Seafield, and was later, 1701, treated Viscount Reidhaven and Earl of Seafield, with remainder, in default of direct heirs male", to heirs general. James, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield. died without issue in 1811, when the Earldom of Findlater and Viscounty of Seafield 'expired, or at least have not so far been claimed by an heir-male of the Ogilvie family, who alone could claim them. The Earldom of Seafield, the Viscounty of Reidhaven, and the Barony of Ogilvie or Deskford, went to Sir Lewis Alexander Grant, son of Lady Margaret, daughter of the stli Earl of Findlater and 2nd of Seafield. If the title of Seafield were, as your correspondent suggests, a male fief, it could never have come to the Grants at all, ■ any more than did the older Ogilvie title of Findlater.