William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll (12 March 1772 – 26 January 1819), known as Lord Hay until 1778, was a
Scottish peer.
Early life
Erroll was the son of
James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll
James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll (20 April 1726 – 3 June 1778 (Chester Courant, 16 June 1778)) styled Lord Boyd from 1728 to 1746, was a Scottish nobleman and the son of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock.
After his father was attainted in 1 ...
and his second wife, Isabella Carr, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of William Carr of
Etal in
Northumberland
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. His elder sister, Lady Augusta Hay (the first wife
George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow
George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow, GCH FRS (26 March 1766 – 6 July 1843), styled Lord Boyle until 1775, was a British peer.
He was the son of John Boyle, 3rd Earl of Glasgow, and his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of George Ross, 13th Lord ...
), 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 of Balcomie.
His paternal grandparents were
William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock
William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (12 May 170518 August 1746), was a Scottish peer who joined the 1745 Jacobite Rising, was captured at Culloden and subsequently executed for treason on Tower Hill.
His family were supporters of the governmen ...
and Lady Anne Livingston (a daughter of
James Livingston, 5th Earl of Linlithgow).
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 of Scotland, serving until 1809.
He also served as a
Scottish representative peer
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(
Whig) from 1806 to 1807 and, again, from 1818 to 1819.
From 1817 to 1819, he was
.
Personal life
He firstly married
Jane Bell (d. 1793), the second daughter of Matthew Bell of
Wolsingham
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History
Wolsingham sits at the confluence ...
,
in 1792. Before her death in 1793, they had one child together:
* Lady Dulcibella Jane Hay (21 March 1793 – 10 January 1885), who married
The Ven. Charles Nourse Wodehouse,
Archdeacon of Norwich
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History ...
, 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
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Wodehouse was born in 1714, the son of Sir John Wodehouse, 4th Baronet, and Mary Fermor. His unus ...
) 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
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Sibling-in-law al ...
of
Sir Thomas Stapleton, 6th Bt. (also the 16th
Baron Le Despencer
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Creation
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). Together, they were the parents of seven children, including:
*
James Hay, Lord Hay (1797–1815), who was killed at the
Battle of Quatre Bras
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.
* Lady Alicia Hay (12 December 1798 – 21 January 1799), who died young.
* Lady Isabella Hay (24 February 1800 – 28 July 1868), who married Lt.-Gen. William Wemyss, second son of Lt.-Gen.
William Wemyss MP and Frances Erskine (a daughter of
Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet
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Erskine was the son of Colonel the Honourable William Erskine of Tor ...
) 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 h ...
(1801–1846), who married
Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence, an illegitimate daughter of King
William IV
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by his mistress
Dora Bland ("Mrs Jordan").
* Lady Harriet Jemima Hay (20 January 1802 – 8 February 1837), who married
Daniel Gurney, the
High Sheriff of Norfolk
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, in 1822.
* Lady Caroline Augusta Hay (11 May 1804 – 19 August 1877), who married John
Morant of
Brockenhurst
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in 1823.
* Hon. Samuel Hay (9 January 1807 – 25 November 1847), who married Louisa Pleydell-Bouverie, the only daughter of
Vice-Admiral
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Australia
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Hon.
Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie (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 (29 January 1809 – 17 July 1841), who married
Rear-Admiral
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James Erskine Wemyss
James Erskine Wemyss (9 July 1789 – 3 April 1854) was a Scottish MP and Rear-Admiral.
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 f ...
, eldest son of Lt.-Gen.
William Wemyss, 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). They were the parents of three children, the last of which was born after his death:
* Rev. Hon. Somerville Hay (20 July 1817 – 25 September 1853), who married Lady Alicia Diana Erskine, third daughter of
Henry Erskine, 12th Earl of Buchan, in 1843.
* Lady Fanny Hay (18 August 1818 – 28 August 1853), who married the Rev. Stephen Ralph Cartwright, Rector of Aynhoe, in 1848.
* Lady Margaret Hay (31 August 1819 – 31 October 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