George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale
DL (1753 – 9 August 1804) was a Scottish peer and naval officer.
Early life
Hay was born at Newhall in
East Lothian
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In ...
, 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 of Gallanach).
His maternal grandfather was John Hayhurst, a labourer who lived at
Quernmore,
Lancaster.
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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 and the former Lady Mary Maitland (a daughter of
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale
John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Order of the Garter, KG, Privy Council of Scotland, PC (24 May 1616 – 24 August 1682) was a Scottish statesman and peer.
Background
Maitland was a member of an ancient family of both Berwickshire an ...
).
Career
Hay served as an officer in the
East India Company
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's
Bombay Marine.
In 1787 he inherited the titles of his
first cousin once-removed, the
6th Marquess.
He then became a
Burgess of
Edinburgh
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a year later,
Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire 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 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 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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The formal name for the position held by the Clerk of the House of Co ...
, 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
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) in 1815.
*
Lord John Hay (1793–1851),
an MP and Rear-Admiral in the
Royal Navy
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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 FRSE (3 June 1785 – 19 May 1843) was a 19th-century Scottish landowner and politician. As a politician he was deemed a moderate Whig.
Early life
He was born on 3 June 1785 the first surviving son of ...
of
Craigiehall, son of William Hope-Vere (a grandson of
Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun
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Early life
He was the son of John Hope of Hopetoun by a daughter of the John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Had ...
), in 1813.
* Lady Julia Tomlinson Hay (1797–1835), who married
John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton
John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton, (27 June 1786 – 3 June 1869), known as Sir John Hobhouse, Bt, from 1831 to 1851, was an English politician and diarist.
Early life
Born at Redland near Bristol, Broughton was the eldest son of Si ...
, son of
Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 1st Baronet, 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 of Gilmerton, in 1833.
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, 2000), volume II, page 343.
As a result of the marquess's declining health, he and his wife went to travel
the Continent 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.
References
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1753 births
1804 deaths
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British East India Company Marine personnel