| Activity | Career:
Commissioner of the Treasury for Scotland (1705-1707); High Admiral of Scotland (1705-1706); President of the Council of Scotland (1706); Privy Councillor (1707, 1717); Lord Privy Seal (Scotland) (1709-1713); one of the Lords Justice Regents of the Realm (1714); proclaimed the accession of George I at Edinburgh (1714); Principal Secretary of State for Scotland (1714-1715); Chancellor of Glasgow University (1714); Lord Clerk of the Register (1716); Keeper of the Great Seal for Scotland (1716-1733); lent money to Rob Roy MacGregor for a speculation in cattle which produced a loss; he demanded his money back, thus depriving Rob Roy of his land and leading him to maintain himself largely by robbing Montrose's tenants
Honours:
Duke of Montrose, Marquess of Graham and Buchanan, Earl of Kincardine, Viscount of Dundaft and Lord Aberuthven, Mugdock and Fintrie 1707
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| Relationships | Son of James Graham, 3rd Marquess of Montrose, and his wife Christian, daughter of John Leslie, Duke of Rothes, and his wife, Anne, daughter of John Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Lindsay (FRS 1663); succeeded his father as 4th Marquess of Montrose married Christian, daughter of David Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Northesk, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Lindsay (FRS 1663) |