William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale JP (4 November 1884 – 30 March 1967) was a Scottish aristocrat, land owner and soldier.

Early life

William George Montagu Hay was born on 4 November 1884. He was the eldest son of

William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale, KT, DL (29 January 1826 – 25 November 1911), known before 1878 as Lord William Hay or Lord William Montagu Hay, was a Scottish landowner, peer and politician. He was born at Yester House, near ...

(1826–1911) and the former Candida Louisa Bartolucci, Marchioness of Tweeddale. His brother, Lord Arthur Hay (who married Menda Ralli), was killed in 1914 during the Battle of the Aisne, and his youngest brother (and

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), was Colonel Lord Edward Douglas Hay. His father was the third son of

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and Lady Susan Montagu, a daughter of

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. His mother was the third daughter of Vincenzo Bartolucci (son of General Luigi Bartolucci) and Clementina Dundas (second daughter of Lt. Col. Thomas Dundas, a grandson of

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, and Charlotte Anna Boultbee). His uncle,

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, was married to Julia Mackenzie, and after his death, she remarried to

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and

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, MP. Another uncle, Lord John Hay, was Admiral of the Fleet in 1888. His maternal grandfather was from

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in Marche, Italy and an aunt, Evelyn Bartolucci, was the second wife of Adm. Sir

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. He was educated at

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in Windsor before attending

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Career

From 1903 to 1905, he was 2nd Lieutenant with the Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry and the 1st Life Guards from 1905 to 1908. He served as Lieutenant with the 1st Life Guards from 1908 to 1909 and served during

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in France with the Guards from 1914 to 1915. From 1915 to 1917, he was Temp Maj. of the 3rd Lowland Brigade. In 1944, he succeeded

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as the

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, serving until his death in 1967. From 1952 to 1967, he was one of four Ensigns with the

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. Lord Tweeddale was

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for East Lothian in 1955.

Personal life

On 7 December 1912, Lord Tweeddale was married to Marguerite Christine Ralli, a cousin of his brother's wife. Marguerite was the daughter of Alexander Ralli and Helen (née Carew) Ralli. After her parents' divorce, her mother remarried to

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, the U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. Her aunt, Katherine Jane Carew, was the second wife of Sir

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, and Jessie Philippa Carew, another aunt, was the wife of

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. Together, William and Marguerite were the parents of: * Lady Hélène Candida Hay (1913-2011), who married

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in 1933. * Lady Marguerite Georgina Christine Hay (1916–2003), who married Capt. Arthur Nicholas Coleridge (1915–1988), a grandson of the Hon. Stephen Coleridge and John Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, in 1941. * Lady Christine Daphne Hay (1919–2000), who married Lt. Col. David Morley-Fletcher, son of Bernard Morley-Fletcher, in 1939. They divorced in 1947 and she remarried to Lt. Col. Francis Robert Cameron Stewart, son of Sir Francis Hugh Stewart, in 1957. * Lady Frances Elizabeth Anne Hay (b. 1926), who married Nigel Arthur Pearson (d. 1975), only son of

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, in 1956. * Lord Hay (1928–1928), an unnamed son who died at birth. Following the death of his first wife on 15 October 1944, Lord Tweeddale remarried to Marjorie Helen (née Wagg) Nettlefold on 24 March 1945. Marjorie was the former wife of Lt. Col.

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and a daughter of Henry John Wagg OBE. Lord Tweeddale died on 30 March 1967. As his only son predeceased him, he was succeeded in his titles by his nephew, David George Montagu Hay, who became the 12th Marquess of Tweeddale. After his death, the family estate,

Yester House Yester House is an early 18th-century mansion near Gifford in East Lothian, Scotland. It was the home of the Hay family, later Marquesses of Tweeddale, from the 15th century until the late 1960s. Construction of the present house began in 1699 ...

, was sold in the late 1960s to two antiques dealers and, in 1972, it was bought by the Italian-American composer

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because of the acoustics of the ballroom. His widow, the Dowager Marchioness of Tweeddale died on 24 November 1977.

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William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale
at the National Portrait Gallery, London {{DEFAULTSORT:Tweeddale, William Hay, 11th Marquess Of 1884 births 1967 deaths Lothians and Border Horse officers British Life Guards officers British Army personnel of World War I People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford 11 Lord-Lieutenants of East Lothian