William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll (12 March 1772 – 26 January 1819), known as Lord Hay until 1778, was a
Scottish peer
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.
Early life
Erroll was the son of
James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll and his second wife, Isabella Carr, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of William Carr of
Etal in
Northumberland
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It is bordered by land on ...
. His elder sister, Lady Augusta Hay (the first wife
George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow), succeeded to the Etal estate in 1806. From his father's first marriage to Rebecca Lockhart, he had one half-sibling, Lady Mary Hay, who married Gen.
John Scott John Scott may refer to:
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of Balcomie.
His paternal grandparents were
William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock and Lady Anne Livingston (a daughter of
James Livingston, 5th Earl of Linlithgow
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Early life
Livingston was the only ...
).
Career
In 1798, he succeeded to the
earldom of Erroll following the death of his elder brother
George
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, who died without issue.
In 1805, he was appointed
Knight Marischal
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of Scotland, serving until 1809.
He also served as a
Representative Peer
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for Scotland (
Whig) from 1806 to 1807 and, again, from 1818 to 1819.
From 1817 to 1819, he was
.
Personal life
He firstly married
Jane Bell Jane Bell may refer to:
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(d. 1793), the second daughter of Matthew Bell of
Wolsingham.
in 1792. Before her death in 1793, they had one child together:
* Lady Dulcibella Hay (1793–1885), who married
The Ven. Charles Nourse Wodehouse,
Archdeacon of Norwich, second son of the Rev. Philip Wodehouse, Prebend of Norwich (brother of
John Wodehouse, 1st Baron Wodehouse, and second son of
Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet) and Apollonia Nourse (daughter and co-heiress of
John Nourse), in 1821.
Secondly, he married
Alicia Eliot (d. 1812), the third daughter of Samuel Eliot, Esq. of Antigua, and Alice (
née
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Byam) Eliot (a daughter of Col. William Byam of
Antigua
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), in 1796. Alicia was the
sister-in-law of
Sir Thomas Stapleton, 6th Bt. (also the 16th
Baron Le Despencer). Together, they were the parents of seven children, including:
*
James Hay, Lord Hay
James Hay, Lord Hay and Lord Slains (c.1797 – 16 June 1815) was a British Army officer killed during the Waterloo Campaign.
Biography
James Hay was the son of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll and his wife Alicia Eliot (d. 1812).
Hay, an ensi ...
(1797–1815), who was killed at the
Battle of Quatre Bras
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.
* Lady Alicia Hay (1798–1799), who died young.
* Lady Isabella Hay (1800–1868), who married Lt.-Gen. William Wemyss, second son of Lt.-Gen.
William Wemyss
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Early life
He was the son of the Hon. James Wemyss, third son of the 5th Earl of Wemyss, and his wife ...
MP and Frances Erskine (a daughter of
Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet) in 1820.
*
William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll
William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll, KT, GCH, PC (21 February 1801 – 19 April 1846), styled Lord Hay between 1815 and 1819, was a Scottish peer and politician.
Early life
Erroll was the son of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll, and hi ...
(1801–1846), who married
Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King
William IV by his mistress
Dora Bland ("Mrs Jordan").
* Lady Harriet Jemima Hay (1803–1837), who married
Daniel Gurney
Daniel Gurney (1791–1880), was an English banker and antiquary from the Gurney family of Norwich.
Life
Gurney was born at Earlham Hall, near Norwich, on 9 March 1791, as the youngest son of John Gurney (1749–1809) of Earlham, Norfolk, and b ...
, the
High Sheriff of Norfolk, in 1822.
* Lady Caroline Hay (1805–1877), who married John
Morant
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of
Brockenhurst in 1823.
* Hon. Samuel Hay (1807–1847), who married Louisa Pleydell-Bouverie, the only daughter of
Vice-Admiral Hon.
Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie
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(second son of
Jacob Pleydell-Bouverie, 2nd Earl of Radnor
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) and Louisa May (second daughter of Joseph May of Hale House), in 1832.
* Lady Emma Hay (1809–1841), who married
Rear-Admiral James Erskine Wemyss
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He was the son of William Wemyss by his wife Frances, daughter of Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet. In 1820 he succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for ...
, eldest son of Lt.-Gen.
William Wemyss
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Early life
He was the son of the Hon. James Wemyss, third son of the 5th Earl of Wemyss, and his wife ...
, in 1826.
In 1816, he married, thirdly, to
Harriet Somerville (d. 1864), sister of
Mark Somerville, 16th Lord Somerville and third daughter of Lt.-Col. Hon. Hugh Somerville (second son of
James Somerville, 13th Lord Somerville
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), by his second wife, Mary Digby (eldest daughter of Hon. Wriothesley Digby, son of
William Digby, 5th Baron Digby
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Life
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). They were the parents of three children, including:
* Rev. Hon. Somerville Hay (1817–1853), who married Lady Alicia Diana Erskine, third daughter of
Henry Erskine, 12th Earl of Buchan
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On 28 Septemb ...
, in 1843.
* Lady Fanny Hay (1818–1853), who married the Rev. Stephen Ralph Cartwright, Rector of Aynhoe, in 1848.
* Lady Margaret Hay (1819–1891), who married Frederick Astell Lushington, sixth son of
Sir Henry Lushington, 2nd Baronet and Fanny Maria Lewis (sister and co-heiress of
Matthew Gregory Lewis
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) in 1846.
Lord Erroll died on 26 January 1819 and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son,
William
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. His widow, the Dowager Countess of Erroll, died in 1864.
Ancestors
References
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1772 births
1819 deaths
Lords High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Scottish representative peers