Personal Life
In April 1859 Grant-Duff married Anna Julia Webster; they had four sons and four daughters. Their eldest daughter was Clare Annabel Caroline, wife of the financier Frederick Huth Jackson, whilst their third son, Adrian Grant-Duff colonel of the Black Watch was killed at the First Battle of the Aisne in September 1914. Adrian's daughter was Shiela Grant Duff while his son, Neill, was himself shot down over France, in 1940, whilst with the RAF.
Grant Duff died in his home in Chelsea, London on January 1906, aged 76, and was buried in Elgin Cathedral, Scotland.
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