Edward Drummond-Hay (Royal Navy officer)

Sir Edward Hay Drummond-Hay (4 March 1815 – 24 January 1884)[1] was a British naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator.

He was born in England, son of Edward Drummond Hay, who was a nephew of the ninth Earl of Kinnoul. Like with his younger brother, John Hay Drummond Hay, he was educated at the Edinburgh Academy[2] and then at Charterhouse.[3] He was a Colonel of the 5th West India Regiment from 6 November 1854 to 15 August 1863.

From 1839 to 1850, he was the President of the British Virgin Islands.

From 1850 to 1855, he was the Governor of Saint Kitts.[4]

From 1855 to 3 July 1863, he was the Governor of Saint Helena.[5][6]

While he was governor of Saint Helena he devoted much of his attention to public works amongst which were the settlement Rupert's valley and the main drainage works of Jamestown. In 1857 the church of St. John was started, and in 1861 the church of St. Matthew at Hut's Gate was built.

In September 1860, the governor received a visit from Prince Alfred, who was an officer in the Royal Navy serving on H.M.S. Euralus.[7]

Hay was knighted in August 1859.[8]

References
  1. The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire. 1890. p. 363.
  2. The Edinburgh Academical Club (1914). The Edinburgh Academy Register 1824-1914. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  3. Parish, William Douglas (1879). List of Carthusians, 1800–1879. Lewes: Farncombe and Co. p. 114. OCLC 37118353. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  4. "No. 21140". The London Gazette. 1 October 1850. p. 2613.
  5. "The Governor of St Helena | Saint Helena Island Info: All about St Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean".
  6. "No. 6439". The Edinburgh Gazette. 10 November 1854. p. 982.
  7. "Public Works and Royal Visit"
  8. "No. 22300". The London Gazette. 23 August 1859. p. 3177.


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