George Hay, 16th Earl of Erroll

Colonel George Hay, 16th Earl of Erroll (13 May 1767 – 14 June 1798), was a Scottish peer and soldier.

Early life

Erroll was the eldest son of James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll, and his second wife, Isabella Carr, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of William Carr of Etal in Northumberland. His elder sister, Lady Augusta Hay (the first wife George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow), succeeded to the Etal estate in 1806. From his father's first marriage to Rebecca Lockhart, he had one half-sibling, Lady Mary Hay, who married General John Scott of Balcomie. His younger brother was William Hay, later 17th Earl of Erroll, who served as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1817 to 1819.

Career In 1778, he succeeded to the earldom of Erroll following the death of his father.

Personal life On 25 January 1790, Lord Erroll was married to Elizabeth Jemima Blake (d. 17 January 1831 in Malta), the sister of Joseph Blake, 1st Baron Wallscourt, and a daughter of Joseph Blake of Ardfry (County Galway, Ireland) and Honoria Daly (a daughter of Dermot Daly). Her sister, Joanna Harriet Blake, was the mother of Sir Dominick Daly, the 15th Governor of Prince Edward Island and 7th Governor of South Australia.

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