HAY, James. Cornet 16 lancers 10 June 1795, lieut. col. 18 Feb. 1813 to Feb. 1819 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 4 light dragoons 25 Dec. 1821 to 21 Nov. 1822 when placed on h.p.; lieut. col. 2 dragoon guards 22 July 1830 to 27 Oct. 1837 when placed on h.p.; colonel 79 highlanders 8 Feb. 1849 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815. d. at his seat near Kilburn, co. Longford 25 Feb. 1854.
HAY, James (2 son of 7 Marquis of Tweeddale 1753–1804). Ensign 52 foot 23 Jany. 1806; captain grenadier guards 26 March 1818 to 26 Nov. 1830 when placed on h.p.; colonel 86 foot 8 May 1854 to death; general 1 June 1862; chairman of Aberdeen railway company. d. Spa, Belgium 17 Aug. 1862.
HAY, John (brother of the preceding). b. 1 April 1793; entered navy 4 Dec. 1804; lost his left arm at cutting out of some vessels in Hyères Bay 1807; captain 8 May 1816; C.B. 17 Feb. 1837; chairman of board of naval construction 1846; a lord of the admiralty 13 July 1846 to 30 Jany. 1850; captain superintendent of Devonport dockyard 9 Feb. 1850 to death; R.A. 25 Aug. 1851; M.P. for co. Haddington 1826–31; M.P. for Windsor 1847–50. d. St. Michael’s terrace, Stoke, Plymouth 26 or 27 Aug. 1851. bur. Yeaster, co. Haddington.
HAY, John Baker Porter. b. 1800; entered navy 28 Dec. 1811, captain 7 March 1842, retired R.A. 12 April 1862, retired admiral 30 July 1875. d. 14 Gloucester place, Brighton 14 Jany. 1886.
HAY, Mary Cecil (dau. of Thomas William Hay, watchmaker, Shrewsbury). b. Market sq. Shrewsbury 1840; resided at Chiswick, Middlesex and then at East Preston, Worthing; frequently visited Cornwall and introduced many Cornish incidents into her novels; author of Hidden perils 3 vols. 1873; Old Myddleton’s Money 3 vols. 1874; Nora’s love test 3 vols. 1876, 2 ed. 1878; For her dear sake 3 vols. 1880; A wicked girl and other tales 3 vols. 1886 and 10 other works of fiction. d. The Bay Trees, East Preston near Worthing 24 July 1886. bur. Highgate cemet. 29 July.
HAY, Robert (4 son of Robert Hay of Whittingham, co. Haddington). b. 6 Jany. 1799; a leading member of an archæological expedition in Egypt 1826–32, 49 large vols. of drawings made during this expedition by or for him were acquired by the British Museum, Dec. 1876; published Illustrations of Cairo 1840. d. Amisfield, East Lothian 4 Nov. 1863. Additional MS. 31054 in British Museum library, being part of his diary in Egypt; Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities belonging to R. Hay 1869.
HAY, Sir Robert, 8 Baronet. b. 8 May 1825; succeeded his father 18 Jany. 1867; one of the neatest players of golf; with Willie Dunn played Tom Morris and Allan Robertson at North Berwick 1852; won medals at St. Andrews 1848, 1851, 1852, 1872, with 101, 110, 99 and 94; one of the best players in foursome matches. d. Lyons, France 30 May 1885. Hutchinson’s Golf (Badmington Lib. 1890) 64, 362, 413, 415, 416, portrait; Foster’s Baronetage (1883) 700.
HAY, Robert William. b. 1786; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1807, M.A. 1809; private sec. to Viscount Melville first lord of the admiralty 1812–25; under sec. of state for Colonies 1825–1835; F.R.S. d. Malta 9 May 1861.
HAY, William (eld. son of Robert Hay of Lawfield and Spott, d. 1844). b. 1794; ensign 52 foot 30 Jany. 1810; captain 5 dragoon guards 1 July 1824 to 12 Nov. 1829 when he sold out; inspecting superintendent of Metropolitan police 1839 and second commissioner 1850 to death; C.B. 25 Oct. 1851. d. 67 Cadogan place, Chelsea 29 Aug. 1855.
HAYDAY, James. b. London 1796; appren. to Charles Marchant a vellum-binder, London; bookbinder at 31 Little Queen st. Lincoln’s Inn Fields 1833–61; bound books so as to open freely; introduced Turkey morocco instead of the straight grained; his name attached to a book raised its value 25 per cent.; adjudicated bankrupt 10 June 1861. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 19 March 1872. Bookseller, April 1872 p. 284.