THE SEAFIELD TITLE
CHALLENGE BACKED BY ROMANTIC STORY.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION'—tOPIMQHT.)
(AUSTIIALIAN.NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 28th October.', The title of the nineteon-year-oid Countess of Scafleld, a peeress in her own right, has been challenged at the Court of Sessions, Edinburgh. Alexander Grant, a retired tutor, aged 79 years, declares that ho is the son of the seventh Earl of Seaflold, whereas the countess is only the child, of the eleventh earl. Grant alleges that the seventh earl,' when Viscount Reidhavon, in 1846, married, by verbal contract aboard a sailing vessel, Caroline Stuart, the youngest daughter of the eleventh Lord Blantyres, because she was about to become a mother. The latter was carried ashore at Banff on the back of a seaman, and gave birth to a child the same night. Grant was that child. The marriage was later celebrated in London, but every effort was made to hide the original birth. The baby was handed to a gardener at. Nordijn Castle, and given a university education.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 104, 29 October 1925, Page 7
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167THE SEAFIELD TITLE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 104, 29 October 1925, Page 7
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