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

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politician.

Biography

He was a descendant of Peter Hay of Rattray,

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(younger brother of

George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull Sir George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull, (1570 – 16 December 1634) was 6th Lord Kinfauns from 1621 to 1627, then 1st Viscount of Dupplin from 1627 before advancing to the earldom in 1633. He was a Scottish nobleman and political official. Biogr ...

) 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

Balhousie Castle Balhousie Castle, located in Perth, Scotland (on Hay Street, originally a few hundred metres north of the medieval town), was built in the 17th century. History The castle was built in 1631, although its origins are believed to go back a further ...

William Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull William Thomas Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull (died 10 May 1709) was a Scottish peer. His titles were Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lord Hay of Kinfauns in the Peerage of Scotland. Biography He was the second son of the William Hay, 4th ...

, 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 Elizabeth, daughter of

William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan William Drummond, 1st Viscount of Strathallan, Lord Drummond of Cromlix (1617? – 1688), was a Scottish soldier and politician. He served as a Commissioner for Perthshire in the parliaments of 1669–74, 1681–82 and 1685–86, and at the Co ...

, on 20 December 1683. They had five children: # Lady Margaret Hay (30 September 1686 – 26 April 1707), married John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar on 6 April 1703 # Lady Elizabeth Hay (d. 1723), married

James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater and 2nd Earl of Seafield ( – 9 July 1764) was a Scottish peer. Early life James was born . He was the son of James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Seafield and the former Anne Dunbar. His father, the Lord Chancellor o ...

# George Henry Hay (23 June 1689 – 28 July 1758), married Lady Abigail Harley, daughter of

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. # William Hay, died before 1711 #

John Hay of Cromlix John Hay of Cromlix (1691–1740) was a Scottish Jacobite army officer and courtier in the service of James Francis Edward Stuart (known as the "Old Pretender"). He was from the Clan Hay. He was made Jacobite Duke of Inverness by the Old Preten ...

(1691–1740) created the

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, married Marjorie Murray, sister to

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793), was a British judge, politician, lawyer, and peer best known for his reforms to English law. Born in Scone Palace, Perthshire, to a family of Scottish nobility, he wa ...

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