Family
Grattan's father was James Grattan (d. 1766), a Recorder and then MP for Dublin City, who married a daughter of Thomas Marlay.
Grattan had married in 1782 Henrietta Fitzgerald, the daughter of Nicholas Fitzgerald of County Mayo (d. 1761), a son of John FitzGerald and Elizabeth Browne. Henrietta's mother Margaret was the daughter of James Stevenson and Ann Price.
The Grattans had two sons and two daughters. The sons were - James Grattan of Tinnehinch, MP for County Wicklow; and Henry Grattan (junior) of Moyrath, MP for Dublin City and then for County Meath. His daughter Mary Anne married first John Blachford (1771‐1832), and secondly Thomas, 7th Earl of Carnwath, dying in 1853. Harriet (d.1865) married the Revd Wake of Courteenhall.
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