GRANT, Peter Leslie 20th Baron of Balquhain
- Born: 5 April 1741
- Died: May 1774
User ID: Q222
General Notes:
"Peter Leslie Grant, who was born 5th April 1741. He changed his religion in boyhood, and on 11th March 1763 was served Protestant heir to his cousin, Ernest Leslie of Balquhain, in the lands of Balquhain, Auldtoun, Largie, Fetternear, and others in Aberdeenshire. He assumed the name and arms of Leslie on his succession. He died unmarried in May 1774."
from Chiefs of Grant
"James Leslie of Pitcaple, one of the nearer heirs of entail, died, 12th March 1757; and a short time afterwards Captain John Grant, father of Peter Grant, also died, so that then Peter Grant fairly stood the direct and nearest heir of the female line of Count Patrick Leslie's daughters. On the death of Count Charles Cajetan Leslie in 1760, his eldest son, Count Joseph Leopold, having died in 1750, Count Anthony Leslie succeeded to the family estates in Germany, and, in terms of the deeds of settlement, was bound to denude himself of the estate of Balquhain to the next heir of entail ; and having no surviving brother and no son, that next heir of entail was Peter Grant, who had now a better ground for claiming the estate than his former invidious grounds of action.
However, the case (regarding the legitimate heir to Balquhain) continued to be argued on the former grounds, and was finally decided against Count Anthony Leslie in favour of Peter Grant, by an interlocutor of the Court of Session, 4th December 1761, finding it proved that Captain John Grant, the pursuer's father, was a professed papist; that Charles Cajetan, Count Leslie, and his sons Leopold and Anthony were born abroad, out of the king's allegiance, whereby they, being aliens, cannot succeed to any heritage in Scotland ; and therefore they found the retour of Count Anthony Leslie, as heir of tailzie to Ernest Leslie, last of Balquhain, 2d August 1742, with the instrument of sasine following thereon, to be null and void ; and by another interlocutor, dated 5th February 1762, by which the Court found and declared Peter Grant to be the nearest Protestant heir entitled to succeed to the estate of Balquhain ; and found the Counts Leslie obliged to denude of the said estates in favour of Peter Grant, and repelled all the other defences. This decision having been confirmed by the House of Peers, Peter Grant became twentieth Baron of Balquhain."
from Family of Leslie
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