George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale

George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale, DL (1753 – 9 August 1804) was a Bombay Marine officer who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire from 1794 to 1804.

Early life Hay was born at Newhall in East Lothian, Scotland. He was the son of John Hay (d. 1765) and Dorothy ( Hayhurst) Hay (d. 1808). His siblings included William Hay (who married Lady Catherine Hay, a daughter of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale), Edward Hay-Mackenzie of Newhall (who married Hon. Maria Murray-Mackenzie, a daughter of the 6th Lord Elibank), Dorothea Hay (who married James Hay), and Margaret Hay (who married Allan Macdougall of Gallanach). His paternal grandparents were Brig.-Gen. Lord William Hay, of Newham and Margaret Hay (daughter of John Hay of Linplum and granddaughter of Sir James Hay, 1st Baronet). He was a great-grandson of John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale and the former Lady Mary Maitland (a daughter of John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale). He then became a Burgess of Edinburgh a year later, Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire in 1794, and a Scottish representative peer in 1796. an MP and Rear-Admiral in the Royal Navy who married Mary Anne Cameron, eldest daughter of Donald Cameron of Lochiel, 22nd Chief of Clan Cameron, in 1846.

As a result of the marquess's declining health, he and his wife went to travel on the Continent in 1802, starting in France. It was there that they were arrested by French police a year later with other British subjects when war was renewed between the two countries in May 1803. They were then imprisoned in the fortress at Verdun and the marchioness died there on 8 May 1804, as did the marquess during the following August on 9 August 1804.