Charles Grant (British Army officer) Chief of Scottish Command and Governor of Edinburgh Castle, retiring from that posting in 1940. He was also Honorary Colonel of the King's Shropshire Light Infantry from 1930 to 1946. He owned and lived much of his life at Pitchford Hall in Shropshire. He was married in 1903 to Lady Sybil Myra Caroline Primrose (1879–1955), eldest daughter of Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, who had served as British Prime Minister from 1894 to 1895. They had one son, Charles Robert Archibald Grant, who married Pamela Wellesley (born 1912), a granddaughter of the 4th Duke of Wellington. Grant died at
Prime minister-designate Australia, notes that "it is usually possible for the Prime Minister-elect to claim victory on the night of the election". The media sometimes prematurely refers to someone as a Prime Minister-designate where the broader term of Prime Minister-in-waiting would be more suitable. In the United Kingdom during the 2007 Labour Party Leadership Election, Gordon Brown was referred to as the Prime Minister-designate even before the Leadership elections had confirmed him in that position. The title "Premier-designate" often has the same meaning in governments that use the title "Premier" to describe a role equivalent to a Prime Minister. In Israel between