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Note: N252 “The entry in the Rothes Register runs :— "1752, October 14th, William son to James Grant in Hillockhead was baptised; Witnesses :—Alexander Leslie of" ...
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Bought estate of of Beldorney from Thomas Buchan of Auchmacoy, who had bought them in 1807 them from Charles Gordon of Wardhouse, the last of the line of Gordon of Beldorney. (Source: MS by Lord Caithness). On his death the estate passed to his brother Major John Grant of Dawlish.
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Beldorney was advertised 1775 but not sold until 1807. Earl (James) Fife regretted not buying it because it let the Grants into the county representation, and they continued to have Banffshire till after the Reform Bill. Sir Wm was a Tory.
(not strictly true, as Sir James Grant of Grant, 8th Bt, had been MP for Banff 1790-95.
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“In 1776 the lands and Castle of Beldorney sold by Charles Edward Gordon, 11th and last laird of Beldorney, to Thomas Buchan of Auchmacoy. Afterwards sold to Sir William Grant, Master of the Rolls.
1781, Mr Stewart, dwelling in Beldorney Castle, departed this life and was carried to Elgin in a hearse, and for a good man there was not many in his day to be compared to him; he was aged 51 years.”
(Diary kept by a farmer in the Parish of Glass between 1789 and 1811. https://glasscommunityassociation.wordpress.com/glass-remembered-a-farmers-diary/)
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Spent last two years of his life at Barton House, Dawlish, home of his sister, the widow of Adm. Schanck.
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Seems there may be a book called "A Glass Farmer's Diary" which might have some info?:
In 1776 Charles Edward Gordon, eleventh and last Laird of Beldorney, sold the lands and castle of Beldorney, with Belcherrie and Soccoch to Thomas Buchan of Auchmacoy ("A Glass Farmer's Diary"), who in 1792 sold them to Sir Wm. Grant, Master of the Rolls.
[“Cabrach Feerings” http://www.threestones.co.uk/books/feerings/chapter2.html]
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Oil portraits of Sir Wm Grant by Phillips were exhibited at the RA 1820 (139) and 1821 (43), Both are isted in Phillips Sitter Book under March 1820. Both were offered to NPG as a bequest from a descendant, William Alexander Grant of Cullompton, but were declined and later became the property of a cousin, RL Craigie.
(Source: Letters in the NPG Archive)
[From “Regency Portraits”, by Walker.]
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Had property before Beldorney:
“Soccoch and Belcherrie.-These two farms are between the Lesmurdie estate and the boundary between the Lower Cabrach and Glass. They belong with Greenloan, which is included in Soccoch, to Mr Grant of Beldorney, in Glass.
They both came to the Grants in 1792, when "Wm. Grant, Counsellor at Law, London, was seised, Jan. 20th, 1792, in third part of Belcherrie, comp. Succoth, par. Mortlich, now Cabrach, &c".
(Register of the Great Seal, Feb. 3rd, 1792.) Previously Soccoth had belonged to Alexander Duff of Keithmore, the ancestor of the Fife family, who, with his kinsman, Duff of Braco, was insatiable in regard to land. With monotonous regularity the records read, "formerly belonged to so-and-so, now to Duff of Braco." The Duffs acquired Soccoch in 1650, and it ranked as a gentleman's seat, for it is given under a list of Manors in a description of the parish written about 1730.”
(Cabrach Feerings by the Late James P Taylor)
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East Kent Archives Centre
DOCUMENTS OF THE ENBROOK ESTATE, SANDGATE (Bligh family of Sandgate, Kent)
Catalogue Ref. EK-U1486
Copy grant to Sir William Grant of Dawlish, Devon, share in toll revenue, road from Teignmouth to Dawlish - ref. EK-U1486/E1 - date: 1826
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