Earl of Seafield
(1815-1881)

Volume 1, page 128, sitting number 715.

[No name or image appear for this sitting in the Silvy daybooks, but the previous three sittings are a 'Child of Lord Seafield,' Lady Seafield, and 'Lady Seafield and her son,' all posed against the same backdrop as this portrait.]

Born on 4 September 1815, John Charles Ogilvy-Grant was the eldest son of Francis William Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield, and Mary Ann (née Dunn); between 1840 and 1853 he was known as Viscount Reidhaven. He succeeded his father as Earl of Seafield in 1853. From 1853 until 1858 he sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer. In 1858 he was created Baron Strathspey, of Strathspey in the Counties of Inverness and Moray, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords. He was further honoured in 1879 when he was made a Knight of the Thistle.

Lord Seafield married the Honourable Caroline Henrietta Stuart in 1850. He died on 18 February 1881, aged 65, and was succeeded by his son, Ian Charles Ogilvy-Grant. Lady Seafield died in 1911.