Patrick Grant, Lord Elchies

He studied law at the University of Edinburgh and was admitted as an advocate on 12 February 1712, and obtained a good practice.

[1] He is buried in the sealed south-west section of Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, in the area known as the Covenanter's Prison.

He married Margaret (1697–1746), daughter of Sir Robert Dickson of Inveresk, Baronet.

He collected the decisions of the court of session from 1733 to 1757, which were printed in 1813 by William Maxwell Morison.

He wrote notes to the Institutes, of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair, which appeared in 1824.