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BURKE'S COLONIAL GENTRY. 247 ©rant ot CuUarijgorum* GRANT, JAMBS, Esq. late of Tullocligorum, Fingal, Tasmania, member of Council of Education and of some minor boards, formerly J.P. and member of the House of Assembly for Fingal, b. at Brixton, co. Surrey, England, 23rd January, 1823, baptised at the Chapel of Ease, Stockwell, co. Surrey ; educated in Hobart, and afterwards entered King's College, London ; w. first, at the parish church, North Down, Tasmania, 27th March, 1851, Charlotte Mary, 2nd daughter of Jocelyn Henry Connor Thomas, Esq., formerly of Everton, Carlow, Ireland, by Charlotte, his wife, daughter of Henry Partridge, Esq. of Hockham Hall, co. Norfolk (see Burke's Landed Gentry), and bad issue, I. James Henry, of Woodleigh, Herberton, North Queensland, J. P., b. 29th December, 1851. In conjunction with his brothers he owns the extensive cattle station of Woodleigh, Queensland. II. Edward Neve, b. 24th March, 1853. III. Leslie Jocelyn, b. 19th August, 1854. IV. Wallace Partridge, b. 13th October, 1856. V. Franklin Stanhope, b. 31st March, 1860. VI. Herbert Neil, b. 24th January, 1864. I. Katherine Mary. II. Edith Caroline. Mr. Grant m. 2ndly, at All Saints' Church, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 18th July, 1877, Adela Seton, eldest daughter of Francis McCrae Cobham, Esq. (lineally descended from the Cobhams, formerly of Cobham Hall, CO. Kent), by Catherine, his wife, daughter of Captain Walter Synnot (see Synnot of Ballymoyer, Armagh, Ireland, in Burke's Landed Gentry), and by her had issue, VII. Francis Cobham, b. 30th April, 1878. He d. at Ballinclea, co. Dublin, Ireland, 19th September, 1890, aged 67 years. ILincagE. This family is of the Scottish clan Grant. James Gkamt, lived at Nairn, Scotland, where he d. 1833. By Margaret, his wife (who also lived at Nairn, and d. there, 1834), he had two sons, viz., I. James. II. John, d. s.p. 1826, at Sydney, New South Wales. The elder son, James Geant, Esq., a London merchant, h. at Nairn aforesaid, 2nd October, 1786, and left his native place between 1802 and 1805 ; chartered a vessel and went to Tas- mania in 1824, with a land order from the Colonial Office for a free grant of 2,000 acres. This was augmented by the acquisi- tion of 1,500 acres, as heir to his younger brother John, who had preceded him to Tasmania with a land order for a free grant of that area. This was further added to (carrying out the policy of the British Government, to encourage emigration and settlement in the young and struggling colony) by an additional grant of 1,000 acres, to w-hioh he had become entitled under the regulations, after encountering all the privations, dangers, and vicissitudes of early settlement, for expenditure in improvements, and as a meritorious colonist. These grants formed the nucleus of the present estate, which comprises 14,000 acres. Mr. Grant m., at the parish church, Tenterden, co. Kent, 12th September, 1818, Caroline, 5th daughter of John Neve, Esq. of Tenter- den, CO. Kent (see Nete article below), and d. in 1870, at Launceston, and was buried in Fingal Cemetery, having had by her (who d.