William Harry Hay, 19th Earl of Erroll (3 May 1823 – 3 December 1891), styled Lord Hay between 1823 and 1831, and Lord Kilmarnock from 1831 to 1846, was a

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Early life

William Harry Hay was born on 3 May 1823. He was the only son of four children born to Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence and William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll. His elder sister, Lady Ida Hay, married

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(her descendants include the

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and the Baronets of Bellingham). His younger sisters were Lady Agnes Hay, wife of

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(her son,

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, married

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, daughter of King Edward VII), and Lady Alice Hay, who married Charles Edward Louis Casimir Stuart, Count d'Albanie (nephew of fraud

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). His paternal grandparents were William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll and, his second wife, the former Alicia Eliot (third daughter of Samuel Eliot of

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). His mother was the illegitimate daughter of King William IV by his mistress, the famous comic actress Dora Bland (who was known as "Mrs. Jordan"). His maternal aunts and uncles were

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), Mary FitzClarence (wife of Charles Richard Fox),

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Career

Lord Erroll served as the third Page of Honour from 1832 to 1839 (for his grandfather, King William IV, from 1832 to 1837, and for Queen Victoria, his grandfather's niece, from 1837 to 1839). From 1841 to 1860, he served in the British Army.

Personal life

Charles Gore Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll (1852-1927)

On 20 September 1848, he was married to Eliza Amelia Gore (1829–1916), the eldest daughter of Gen. Hon. Sir Charles Stephen Gore (the third son, by his second wife, of Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran) and the former Sarah Rachel Fraser (eldest daughter of James Fraser, a member of the Council of Nova Scotia). The Countess of Arroll served as a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra (wife of King Edward VII) beginning in 1872. Together, they were the parents of seven children: * Hon. Charles Gore Hay, Master of Erroll, ''styled'' Lord Kilmarnock (1850–1850), who died in infancy. *

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(1852–1927), who married Mary Caroline L'Estrange, youngest daughter of Edmund L'Estrange of Tynte Lodge. * Capt. Hon. Arthur Hay (1855–1932), who served in Egypt in 1882 and Burma in 1887 and was a

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from 1896 to 1925; he was awarded

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. * Lady Florence Alice Hay (1858–1859), who died young. * Lady Cecilia Leila Hay (1860–1935), married Capt. George Allan Webbe of Errollston (d. 19 Feb 1925), in 1883. * Hon. Francis Hay (1864–1898), a Page of Honour. * Lady Florence Agnes Adelaide Hay (1872–1935), who married Maj. Henry Wolrige-Gordon (d. 1923) in 1895. Lord Erroll died on 3 December 1891. His widow, the Dowager Countess of Erroll, died on 11 March 1916.

Descendants

Through his eldest surviving son Charles, he was a grandfather of Victor Alexander Sereld Hay, who died in 1928 a year after becoming the 21st Earl of Erroll.

References

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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Erroll, William Hay, 19th Earl Of 1823 births 1891 deaths People educated at Eton College 19 British Army officers Pages of Honour