George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale
DL (1753 – 9 August 1804) was a
Scottish peer.
Early life
Hay was born at Newhall in
East Lothian, Scotland. He was the son of John Hay (d. 1765) and Dorothy ( Hayhurst) Hay (d. 1808). His siblings included William Hay (who married Lady Catherine Hay, a daughter of the
4th Marquess of Tweeddale), Edward Hay-Mackenzie of Newhall (who married Hon. Maria Murray-Mackenzie, a daughter of the
6th Lord Elibank), Dorothea Hay (who married James Hay), and Margaret Hay (who married Allan
Macdougall
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of Gallanach).
His maternal grandfather was John Hayhurst, a labourer who lived at
Quernmore
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,
Lancaster.
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, U.S.A.
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: Burke's Peerage
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(Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003, volume 3, page 3962. His paternal grandparents were Brig.-Gen. Lord William Hay, of Newham and Margaret Hay (daughter of John Hay of Linplum and granddaughter of
Sir James Hay, 1st Baronet). He was a great-grandson of
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale
John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale PC (1645 – 20 April 1713) was a Scottish nobleman.
Early life
Hay was the eldest son of John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and his wife, Lady Jean Scott, daughter of Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch. H ...
and the former Lady Mary Maitland (a daughter of
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale).
Career
Hay served as an officer in the
East India Company
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.
In 1787 he inherited the titles of his
first cousin once-removed, the
6th Marquess.
He then became a
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of
Edinburgh
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a year later,
Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire
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* Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington, 1716 – 28 November 1735
*George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale, 17 March 1794 – 9 August 1804
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in 1794, and a
Scottish representative peer
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in 1796.
Personal life
On 18 April 1785, he married Lady Hannah Maitland, a daughter of
James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale
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James Maitland was born the eldest son of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Laud ...
and the former Mary Turner Lombe (daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Lombe, Alderman and
Sheriff of London
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). Together, George and Hannah were the parents of eleven children, including:
*
George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale
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(1787–1876), the
Governor of Madras
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who married Lady Susan Montagu, a daughter of
William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester
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, in 1816.
* Lord James Hay (1788–1862), a General in the British Army who married Elizabeth Forbes, daughter and heiress of James Forbes of Seaton, in 1813.
* Lady Dorothea Frances Hay (–1875), who married
John Henry Ley,
Clerk of the House of Commons
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, in 1809.
* Lady Hannah Charlotte Hay (–1876), who married John Tharp, son of Joseph Tharp of
Chippenham Park and Lady Susan Murray (daughter of
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore) in 1815.
*
Lord John Hay (1793–1851),
an MP and Rear-Admiral in the
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who married Mary Anne Cameron, eldest daughter of
Donald Cameron of Lochiel, 22nd Chief of
Clan Cameron
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, in 1846.
* Lady Elizabeth Hay (–1868), who married
James Joseph Hope-Vere
James Joseph Hope-Vere of Craigiehall MP FRSE (1785–1843) was a 19th-century Scottish landowner and politician. As a politician he was deemed a moderate Whig.
Life
He was born on 3 June 1785 the first surviving son of William Hope-Vere (1 ...
of
Craigiehall
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, son of William Hope-Vere (a grandson of
Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun), in 1813.
* Lady Julia Tomlinson Hay (1797–1835), who married
John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
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, son of
Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet
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, in 1828.
* Lord Edward George Hay (1799–1862), a Colonel in the Army who died unmarried.
* Lord Thomas Hay (1800–1890), a Reverend who married Harriet Kinloch, daughter of
Sir Alexander Kinloch, 8th Baronet
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of Gilmerton, in 1833.
[G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, ]Gloucester
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: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 343.
As a result of the marquess's declining health, he and his wife went to travel
the Continent
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in 1802, starting in
France
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. It was here that they were captured by
Napoleon's police a year later, with other British subjects, when war was renewed between the two countries. They were then imprisoned in the fortress at
Verdun
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and the marchioness died there on 8 May 1804, as did the marquess during the following August on 9 August 1804.
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1753 births
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