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Michael Charles Grant
12th Baron de Longueuil
Michael Charles Grant 12th Baron de Longueuil
	Shield of the coat of arms
Born	Michael Grant de Longueuil; 1947 (age 76–77)
Occupation(s)	Medical practitioner, painter
Spouses	Isabel Padua ; Susan Casey, Janet Wells
Children	Angela, Rachel, Rebecca, David Alexander
Parent(s)	Raymond Grant de Longueuil and Anne Maltby

Michael Charles Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil (born 1947) is a nobleman possessing the only French colonial title recognized by the Monarch of Canada, currently his third cousin, Charles III.

Assumption of title and royal connection

He assumed the title of Baron de Longueuil in 2004 upon the death of his father, Raymond Grant, in Navarrenx, near Pau, France.

He is related to the monarch through his grandmother, Ernestine Maude Bowes-Lyon. She was first cousin to Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. The baron was a second cousin, once removed, to Queen Elizabeth II.

Career, art, and residence

A medical practitioner, Grant de Longueuil has interests in palliative medicine, working for 13 years at Hayward House. His interest in pain control led him to take a degree in clinical hypnosis. Since retiring from full-time work, he has started painting. He has a studio in the South of France in Navarrenx.

Family

Grant de Longueuil married Isabel Padua,^[1] born in the Philippines and of mixed Spanish and Filipino origin. Together, they have three children:

Angela (born 1974), director of The Angela Grant School of Dance, London;
Rachel (born 1976), an actress and TV presenter;
Rebecca (born 1982), an actress, dancer and singer.

His second wife is Susan Casey, daughter of the BBC comedy writer and producer James Casey. They have one son:

David Alexander (born 1984), a geologist, mountaineer and expedition leader.^[2]

Family seat

The Barons de Longueuil have not lived in Canada for several generations, having lived in Britain and France and, in the 1970s, in Luzon, Philippines.^[3]

The original seigneury was sold^[4] in the early 1800s. The Kingston home of the barons, Alwington House, was sold out of the family in 1910.^[5] In 1993, the current baron and his wife visited the Longueuil Castle or Ardath Castle grounds on Wolfe Island, Ontario, without making any claim to them.^[6] Ardath Castle had been in the family as early as 1795, when the Grant family purchased lands in the area.^[7]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil

16. Charles James Irwin Grant, 6th Baron de Longueuil

8. John Charles Moore Grant, 9th Baron de Longueuil

17. Anne Marie Catherine Trapman

4. Ronald Charles Grant, 10th Baron de Longueuil

18. Joseph Barron

9. Maria-Carlotta Barron

19. Roberta Walkinshaw

2. Raymond Grant, 11th Baron de Longueuil

20. Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

10. Hon. Ernest Bowes-Lyon

21. Frances Dora Smith

5. Ernestine Hester Maud Bowes-Lyon

22. Harvey Drummond

11. Isobel Hester Drummond

23. Susan Caroline Drummond

1. Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil

6. Patrick Maltby

3. Anne Maltby

References

^ "Rachel Grant". IMDb.
^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 101st edition, ed. L. G. Pine, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1956, p. 2389
^ Rachel Grant biography Archived February 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ Barbara Wall La Rocque, Kenneth S. (FRW) Keyes, Wolfe Island: A Legacy in Stone (2009), p. 52
^ Wolfe Island: A Legacy in Stone, p. 52, p. 54
^ Wolfe Island: A Legacy in Stone, pp. 61–62
^ Wolfe Island: A Legacy in Stone, p. 50