Claude Drummond Hay

The Honourable Claude George Drummond Hay (24 June 1862 – 24 October 1920) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.

The fifth son of George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull and Lady Emily Blanche Charlotte Somerset, he was educated at Radley College and on the European Continent. He entered business as a member of the stockbroker company of Ransford & Co in London, and became a director of the Fine Arts & General Insurance Co.

He became active in Unionist politics and was first secretary of the Primrose League. It was an ill-tempered campaign, and Hay took libel proceedings against a number of newspapers following his defeat. He chose not to make an attempt to regain the seat.

During World War I he was granted a temporary commission as a captain in Army Service Corps, subsequently transferring to the General Staff.

He died in Sevastopol in 1920 aged 58 while working as a special correspondent in southern Russia for The Daily Telegraph.