Archibald FitzRoy George Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull (20 June 1855 – 7 February 1916), styled Viscount Dupplin from 1886 until 1897, was a
Scottish peer and soldier. His titles were Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lord Hay of Kinfauns in the
Peerage of Scotland; and Baron Hay of Pedwardine in the
Peerage of Great Britain.
Biography
Hay was the third son of
George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull
George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull (16 July 1827 – 30 January 1897), styled as Viscount Dupplin until 1866, was a Scottish peer and cricketer. His titles were Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lord Hay of Kinfauns in the ...
and Lady Emily Somerset, daughter of
Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort
Major Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, KG (5 February 1792 – 17 November 1853), styled Earl of Glamorgan until 1803 and Marquess of Worcester between 1803 and 1835, was a British peer, soldier, and politician.
Background
Beaufort was t ...
.
One of his sisters, Muriel, was married to Count
Alexander Münster, son of
Georg Herbert zu Münster, German ambassador to the United Kingdom (1873–1885).
He was commissioned into the
Royal Perthshire Militia in 1872 and later joined the
Black Watch
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, with whom he fought in the
1882 Anglo-Egyptian War
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. He was awarded the
Ottoman Order of Osmanieh
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History
The order was created in January 1862 by Sultan Abdülaziz. With the obsolescence of the Nişan-i If ...
. He served in Egypt as chief of staff to
Baker Pasha; he also acted as colonel of the Egyptian Gendarmerie. He retired from the army in 1886, and succeeded to the title on the death of the 12th earl in 1897, his older brothers having died.
''
The Times
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'' noted that the musical earl was "of considerable talent—singing, playing, and composing—and on the occasion of his second marriage composed a hymn to be sung as the bride entered the church."
In the 1890s, he became involved with the
Legitimist Jacobite League of Great Britain and Ireland
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, a part of the
Neo-Jacobite Revival
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, along with
Herbert Vivian
Herbert Vivian (3 April 1865 – 18 April 1940) was an English journalist, author and newspaper owner, who befriended Lord Randolph Churchill, Charles Russell, Leopold Maxse and others in the 1880s. He campaigned for Irish Home Rule and was pr ...
and others. Vivian left the Jacobite League in August 1893,
He was also a collector; his china and furniture from
Dupplin Castle
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The earliest known owner of the castle was Sir William Oli ...
fetched "good prices" when sold at auction at
Christie's
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in May 1911. Later that year his library netted more than £2,700 ().
Marriage and issue
He married Josephine Maria Hawke in 1877 and they had a son Edmund Alfred Rollo George (b. 1879), the couple separated in 1885. In 1903, he subsequently married Florence Mary Darell, granddaughter of
Sir William Lionel Darell, 4th Baronet, and their daughter Lady Elizabeth Blanche Mary Gordon was born the same year. They also had a second daughter.
His son, Edmund, Viscount Dupplin, died of
scarlet fever
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in 1903.
On the earl's death in 1916, the earldom passed to his grandson,
George
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.
Ancestors
References
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1855 births
1916 deaths
British Militia officers
Black Watch officers
British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War
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Neo-Jacobite Revival