Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull

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

The Earl of Kinnoull
Coat of arms of the Earls of Kinnoull
Member of Parliament for Perthshire
In office
1693–1697
Representative Peer in First Parliament of Great Britain
In office
10 November 1710 – 5 January 1715
Personal details
Born1660
Died5 January 1719 (age 58-59)
London, United Kingdom
NationalityScottish
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Elizabeth Drummond
​
(m. 1683)​
Children
Parents
  • Peter Hay
  • Margaret Boyd

Biography
Balhousie Castle

He was a descendant of Peter Hay of Rattray, Perthshire (younger brother of George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull) and Margaret Boyd.[1] Thomas Hay was a Tory member of the Scottish parliament for Perthshire between 1693 and 1697. He was created Viscount Dupplin on 31 December 1697. He resided at the family seat of Balhousie Castle.[2]

William Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull, a supporter of King James II and VII, 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 First Parliament of Great Britain as one of 16 representative peers between 1710 and 1714.[3]

The earl and his heir were briefly imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle on suspicion of Jacobite sympathies during the 1715 uprising.[2]

Marriage and issue

He married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan, on 20 December 1683. They had five children:[2]

  1. Lady Margaret Hay (30 September 1686 – 26 April 1707), married John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar on 6 April 1703
  2. Lady Elizabeth Hay (d. 1723), married James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater
  3. George Henry Hay (23 June 1689 – 28 July 1758), married Lady Abigail Harley, daughter of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
  4. William Hay, died before 1711
  5. John Hay of Cromlix (1691–1740) created the Earl of Inverness

References
  1. Paul, James Balfour (1908). The Scots Peerage. D. Douglas. p. 229.
  2. Paul 1908, p. 231.
  3. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. 42. Henry Colburn. 1880. p. 708.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.