Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull (1660 – 5 January 1719), styled as Viscount Dupplin from 1697–1709, was a Scottish peer and

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politician.

Biography

He was a descendant of Peter Hay of Rattray,

Perthshire Perthshire (locally: ; gd, Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, ...

(younger brother of

George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull, (1570 – 16 December 1634) was a Scottish nobleman and political official. Biography He was the second son of Peter Hay of Megginch and Margaret, daughter of Patrick Ogilvy of Inchmartin. No date is recorde ...

) and Margaret Boyd. Thomas Hay was a Tory member of the

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for Perthshire between 1693 and 1697. He was created Viscount Dupplin on 31 December 1697. He resided at the family seat of

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. William Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull, a supporter of King

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, resigned his titles after the king's abdication. William was given a life peerage by Queen Anne and upon his death on 10 May 1709, the titles passed to Thomas. He was a commissioner for the Union of English and Scottish Parliaments in 1707. He sat in the

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as one of 16 representative peers between 1710 and 1714. The earl and his heir were briefly imprisoned in

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on suspicion of Jacobite sympathies during the 1715 uprising.

Marriage and issue

He married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of

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, on 20 December 1683. They had five children: # Lady Margaret Hay (30 September 1686 – 26 April 1707), married

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on 6 April 1703 # Lady Elizabeth Hay (d. 1723), married

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# George Henry Hay (23 June 1689 – 28 July 1758), married Lady Abigail Harley # William Hay, died before 1711 #

John Hay of Cromlix John Hay of Cromlix (1691–1740) was the Jacobite Duke of Inverness and a courtier and army officer to the King James VIII & III (known as the "Old Pretender"). He was from the Clan Hay. Life His parents were Thomas Hay, seventh earl of ...

(1691–1740) created the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kinnoull 1660 births 1719 deaths 07 Scottish representative peers Peers of Scotland created by William II Shire Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1689–1702