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Sir George Grant Suttie

1797–1878

A Scottish baronet tied to the Balgone and Prestongrange estates, he is remembered both as a legal writer and as a figure in East Lothian family history. His name also appears in records connected with nineteenth-century industrial development at Prestongrange.

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Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne on the Cause of the Higher Average Price of Grain in Britain than on the the Continent

Letter to the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Melbourne on the Cause of the Higher Average Price of Grain in Britain than on the the Continent

by Sir George Grant Suttie

About the author

Born in 1797, he became the 5th Baronet of the Grant-Suttie family after succeeding his father in 1836. Reliable sources available here identify him as Sir George Grant-Suttie, 5th Bt, and note that he lived until 1878.

The short biographical records that could be confirmed describe him as a legal writer. Family-history and estate references connect him with Balgone and Prestongrange in East Lothian, and local history sources note that in 1830 he leased the Prestongrange colliery lands to Matthias Dunn during an important phase in the site's industrial revival.

Some details of his wider life are only lightly documented in the sources I could confirm during this search, so this overview keeps to the basics. He appears today mainly through baronetage records, estate history, and a surviving portrait listing at the National Portrait Gallery.