George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull

The Earl of Kinnoull
Hay-Drummond coat of arms
Personal details
BornGeorge Hay-Drummond
(1827-07-16)16 July 1827
Died30 January 1897(1897-01-30) (aged 69)
Spouse
Lady Emily Somerset
(m. 1848)
Children9, including Archibald, Alistair, and Claude
Parents

George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull JP DL (16 July 1827 – 30 January 1897), styled as Viscount Dupplin until 1866, was a Scottish peer and cricketer. His titles were Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lord Hay of Kinfauns in the Peerage of Scotland; and Baron Hay of Pedwardine in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Biography

Kinnoull was born in 1827 at 51 Grosvenor Street,[1] the eldest son of Thomas Robert Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull, and Louisa Burton Rowley, daughter of Sir Charles Rowley, 1st Baronet.[2]

He married Lady Emily Blanche Charlotte Somerset, daughter of Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort, and Emily Frances (née Smith), on 20 July 1848. She, who was born 26 January 1828, died of bronchitis, 27 January 1895, at the Berkeley Hotel, Piccadilly, London, and was buried at Dupplin.[3] He died on 30 January 1897, aged 69, at 'The Bungalow, Torquay, Devon. He was buried on the afternoon of Saturday, 6 February 1897, within the little private family burying ground in the gardens of Dupplin Castle.[4]

He served as Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Perthshire.[5]

Family

The Earl and Countess had nine children:

Ancestors

Ancestors of George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull
16. George Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull
8. Robert Hay-Drummond, Archbishop of York
17. Abigail Harley
4. Robert Hay-Drummond, 10th Earl of Kinnoull
18. Peter Auriol
9. Henrietta Auriol
2. Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull
20. Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
10. Hon. Thomas Harley (Lord Mayor of London)
21. Martha Morgan
5. Sarah Harley
22. Edward Bangham
11. Anne Bangham
1. George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull
24. Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Rowley
12. Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, 1st Baronet
25. Arabella Dawson
6. Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, 1st Baronet
26. Bartholomew Burton (Governor of the Bank of England)
13. Sarah Burton
27. Philadelphia Herne
3. Louisa Burton Rowley
28. Curtis King
14. Admiral Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet
29. Mary Barnett
7. Elizabeth King
30. William Coker
15. Susannah Margaretta Coker
31. Susanna Saintlo

References

  1. ^ "Births". The Morning Post. 6 December 1828. p. 4. Retrieved 19 December 2024.
  2. ^ James Balfour Paul (1908). The Scots Peerage. D. Douglas. p. 232.
  3. ^ Gibbs, The Hon.Vicary, Doubleda, H.A., & Walden, Lord Howard de, editors, The Complete Peerage, vol.vii, London, 1929, p.325.
  4. ^ The Perthshire Constitutional & Journal, Monday, 8 Feb. 1897: An account of the funeral obsequies at Dupplin of the late Earl of Kinnoull.
  5. ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland. S. Low, Marston & Company. 1901. p. 976.
  6. ^ Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950