Charles Colmore Grant, 7th Baron de Longueuil

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Charles Colmore Grant, 7th Baron de Longueuil was the son of Charles James Irwin Grant, 6th Baron de Longueuil and Harriet Colmore. He was born on 13 April 1844 at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. [1] In 1878, he married Mary Wayne, daughter of Thomas Wayne. [1] In 1880, he claimed a royal recognition of his right to the barony of Longueuil. By the treaty of Quebec the sovereignty of Canada passed from the Kings of France to the Kings of Great Britain but with the reservation that all rights and privileges "of what kind soever" should be reserved and secured to all individuals of French descent to which they had been entitled under the previous regime. [2] Queen Victoria was graciously pleased to recognise the claim of Charles Colmore Grant to the title of Baron de Longueuil. [3] He died on 13 December 1898 at age 54 at New York City. [1] [4] He was without issue and his half-brother Reginald Charles succeeded him.

Charles James Irwin Grant, only son of Charles William Grant, 5th Baron de Longueuil and Caroline Coffin, was born in Montreal on 1 April 1815. He served in the 79th Regiment as a lieutenant for a while. He later married Henriet Colmore, from whom he fathered two sons as well as a daughter. His wife Henriet died in 1847 and he remarried in Charleston, South Carolina on 18 January 1849 to Anne Trapman, second daughter of Louis Trapman, a consul. He had many children from this union including Reginald Charles and John Charles Moore. He died on 26 February 1879 at age 63.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 101st edition, London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1956, p. 2389
  2. Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, London: Harrison and Sons, 1885, p. 1471
  3. London Gazette, 7 December 1880
  4. New York Times (PDF), 14 December 1898
French nobility
recognized by the Crown in right of Canada
Preceded by
Charles James Irwin Grant
Baron de Longueuil
1879–1898
Succeeded by
Reginald Charles Grant