Grierson, Sir Robert, of Lag, a notorious persecutor of the Covenanters, whose memory is still regarded with odium among the peasants of Galloway; was for some years Steward of Kirkcudbright; was in 1685 made a Nova Scotia baronet, and awarded a pension (1655‒1733).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Grieg, Edoard * Griesbach, Johann Jacob