Edward William Auriol Drummond-Hay (4 April 1785 – February 1845) was a British soldier,

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and diplomat. Drummond-Hay was the son of Edward Hay-Drummond and Elizabeth de Vismes, and the grandson of Archbishop

Robert Hay Drummond Robert Hay (10 November 1711 – 10 December 1776), known later as Robert Hay-Drummond of Cromlix and Innerpeffray, was successively Bishop of St Asaph, Bishop of Salisbury, and, from 1761 until his death, Archbishop of York. Origins and birth ...

. He was educated at

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, graduating in 1806. He 1808 he received a commission in the

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and served with the

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and

73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot The 73rd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1780. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 42nd Regiment of Foot to form the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in 1881. History Formation The re ...

during the

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. He fought in the

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and was present at the

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in 1815. On leaving the army, Drummond-Hay pursued his interest in

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and history, inluding undertaking a translation of Frederika Freygang and Wilhelm von Freygang's ''Letters from the Caucasus and Georgia''. In August 1823 he moved to Edinburgh upon being appointed

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, the role having been secured through the influence of his cousin,

Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull Thomas Robert Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull (5 April 1785 – 18 February 1866), styled Viscount Dupplin between 1787 and 1804, was a Scottish peer. His titles were Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lord Hay of Kinfauns in the Peerage ...

. On 8 March 1824, he joined the

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and was its Secretary between 1827 and 1829. In 1829, Drummond-Hay was appointed Consul-General to Morocco and relocated to

Tangiers Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the capit ...

. His private journals of his journey to Morocco, held by the

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, cover the period from 1829 to 1830. His remit from the

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was to counter French expansionism in the region (particularly after the

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in 1830) and to protect British shipping. He died in Morocco in 1845.'Death of Drummond Hay, Esq., British Consul-General in Morrocco', ''The Morning Post'', no. 23139 (Thursday 13 March 1845). Drummond-Hay married Louisa Margaret Thomson on 14 December 1812. Together they had ten children, including Sir Edward Drummond-Hay and Sir John Hay Drummond Hay.

References

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