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By 1822 toil and anxiety had so told upon Captain Grant’s health that he was compelled to return to Scotland in the following year, after handing over charge of his appointment to Colonel (afterwards General) Briggs. While on furlough in Scotland he completed his History of the Mahrattas, the materials for which he had long been collecting, and eventually published it in 1826. On May 12, 1827, he finally retired from the Company’s service. On his mother’s death in 1824 he had succeeded to the Eden estates, and had assumed, in consequence, the additional name of Duff, and having settled on the estate, occupied himself with agriculture, cattle-breeding and planting. The hedges which he planted are still a feature of the neighbourhood. In the year 1827 he married Jane Catherine, only daughter of Sir Whitelaw Ainslie, an eminent physician, and author of the *Materia Medica of India*. In 1850 his wife succeeded to an estate in Fifeshire which belonged to her mother's family, and Grant Duff then adopted the further name of Cuninghame. He died on September 23, 1858, aged sixty-nine years.