Francis Ogilvie-Grant, 10th Earl of Seafield

Seafield was born on 9 March 1847 in Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland. He was the eldest son of The Hon. James Ogilvie-Grant, by his first wife, Caroline Louisa Evans (1820–1850), daughter of Eyre Evans, Esq. of Ash Hill, and Anna Maunsell. After his education at Harrow, he served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy and then joined the merchant navy. ==Career==

Seafield (then known as Frank Grant) arrived in New Zealand in 1870. He bought a farm in the Waiareka Valley in a locality known as Te Aneraki to the west of Oamaru in North Otago. He lost his money through his farming pursuits, and in the late 1870s the impoverished family moved to Oamaru town. He was succeeded by his oldest son in the earldom, James Ogilvie-Grant, 11th Earl of Seafield, who at the time was twelve years old. The earldom and the other subsidiary Scottish peerages could be passed on to female heirs, and were inherited by Nina Ogilvie-Grant, 12th Countess of Seafield. After Lord Seafield died, his wife lived for some time in Auckland and Tauranga before moving to England. She died at Brighton on 16 October 1935. ==Personal life==

On 24 November 1874, Grant married his first cousin Anne Trevor Corry ("Nina") Evans, daughter of Major George Thomas Evans and Louisa Barbara Corry. They had seven children: married the heiress Mary Elizabeth Nina Townend, daughter of Dr. Joseph Henry Townend, of Christchurch, in 1898. • Trevor Ogilvie-Grant, 4th Baron Strathspey (1879–1948), married Alice Louisa Hardy-Johnston, daughter of Thomas Masterman Hardy-Johnston, in 1905. • Hon. John Charles Ogilvie-Grant (1887–1893). ==References==