John Charles Ogilvy-Grant, 7th Earl of Seafield, KT (4 September 1815 – 18 February 1881), styled Viscount Reidhaven from 1840 to 1853, was a Scottish nobleman. He is numbered as the 26th Chief of Clan Grant. Genealogy John Charles was the third son of Francis William Ogilvy-Grant, 6th Earl of Seafield, and Mary Ann Dunn; and as a young man entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman. His older brothers having died, he succeeded his father as Earl of Seafield in 1853. Unsuccessful in standing for election to the House of Commons in 1841, from 1853 until 1858 he sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer. The latter year he was created Baron Strathspey, of Strathspey in the Counties of Inverness and Moray, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. This title gave Seafield an automatic seat in the House of Lords. He was further honoured in 1879 when he was made a Knight of the Thistle. Lord Seafield married the Honourable Caroline Henrietta Stuart in 1850. He died in February 1881, aged 65, and was buried next to his father at the mausoleum at Duthil Old Parish Church and Churchyard, at the centre of the parish of Duthil, Inverness-shire. He was succeeded in his titles by his son Ian Charles Ogilvy-Grant. Lady Seafield died in 1911. Political and Personal His friend Sir William Fraser recorded that In Parliament Lord Seafield took no very prominent part, his natural disposition not inclining him to the active turmoil of political life, and the website Historic Hansard shows an appearance but no speeches made in the House of Lords. Yet he could be described as a red-hot Conservative and one of the chief supporters of his party in the north of Scotland. An ordained elder of the established Church of Scotland, Lord Seafield was nominated by the Prime Minister Lord Derby to represent the monarch as Lord High Commissioner at the General Assembly of the denomination, but he declined the honour. Fraser recorded that:When Lord Seafield was not in London attending Parliament, he resided at one or other of the three mansions which he maintained on his extensive estates. Cullen House was the largest of these mansions, and it received from his Lordship a wealth of improvement which gives it quite a palatial splendour and appearance. Castle Grant was his residence in Strathspey, and Balmacaan is the family residence