“EARL OF SEAFIELD”
AGED TUTOR CLAIMS TITLE
teLls romantic tale. Australian-and V 7. Cable Association. ' LONDON, October 128, The title of the 28-year-old Countess of Seafield, 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 he is the son of the seventh Earl of Seafield, whereas the countess is only the child of the eleventh earl. Grant alleges that the seventh earl, when Viscount Reidhaven, in 1846, married, by verbal contract aboard a sailing vessel, Caroline Stuart, the daughter of the eleventh Lord Blantyres, beenuue Bhe was about to become a mother. Caroline was carried ashore at Banff on the back of a seaman, and gave birth to a clijid the same night. , Grant was that child. The marriage was later celebrated in London, but every effort whs made to jjide the original birth. The baby was handed to a gardener at Nordon Castle, and given a university education.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12282, 30 October 1925, Page 6
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