Early Life
He was the eldest son of John Grant of Kincardine O'Neil and Margaret Miln Duff of Eden, who died 20 August 1824, was born in the town of Banff on 8 July 1789. His father dying about 1799, his mother moved to Aberdeen, where he went to school, and to the Marischal College.
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