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William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale

1884 – 1967

Scottish peer

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Lived 1884 – 1967 (aged 82).

William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale JP (4 November 1884 – 30 March 1967) was a Scottish aristocrat, land owner and soldier.

Early life William George Montagu Hay was born on 4 November 1884. He was the eldest son of William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale (1826–1911) and the former Candida Louisa Bartolucci, Marchioness of Tweeddale. His brother, Lord Arthur Hay (who married Menda Ralli),

His father was the third son of George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale and Lady Susan Montagu, a daughter of William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester. His mother was the third daughter of Vincenzo Bartolucci (son of General Luigi Bartolucci) and Clementina Dundas (second daughter of Lt. Col. Thomas Dundas, a grandson of Alexander Home, 9th Earl of Home, and Charlotte Anna Boultbee). His uncle, Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale, was married to Julia Mackenzie, and after his death, she remarried to Sir John Rose, 1st Baronet and William Evans-Gordon, MP. Another uncle, Lord John Hay, was Admiral of the Fleet in 1888.

His maternal grandfather was from Cantiano in Marche, Italy and an aunt, Evelyn Bartolucci, was the second wife of Adm. Sir Astley Cooper Key.

Career From 1903 to 1905, he was a 2nd Lieutenant to the Lothians and Berwickshire Imperial Yeomanry and the 1st Life Guards from 1905 to 1908. He also served as Lieutenant with the 1st Life Guards from 1908 to 1909 and served during World War I in France with the Guards side from 1914 to 1915. From 1915 to 1917, he was Temp Maj. of the 3rd Lowland Brigade. a cousin of his brother's wife. Marguerite was the daughter of Alexander Ralli and Helen (née Carew) Ralli. After her parents' divorce, her mother remarried to Lewis Einstein, the U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. Her aunt, Katherine Jane Carew, was the second wife of Sir Edward Bosc Sladen, and Jessie Philippa Carew, another aunt, was the wife of Francis Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys. Lady Marguerite Georgina Christine Hay (1916–2003), who married Capt. Arthur Nicholas Coleridge (1915–1988), a grandson of the Hon. Stephen Coleridge and John Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, in 1941. who married Nigel Arthur Pearson (d. 1975), only son of Sir Neville Pearson, 2nd Baronet, in 1956. Lord Hay (1928–1928), an unnamed son who died at birth. Lord Tweeddale remarried to Marjorie Helen (née Wagg) Nettlefold on 24 March 1945. Marjorie was the former wife of Lt. Col. Joseph Henry Nettlefold and a daughter of Henry John Wagg OBE. After his death, the family estate, Yester House, was sold in the late 1960s to two antique-dealers. In 1972, it was bought by the Italian-American composer Gian Carlo Menotti because of the acoustics of the ballroom. His widow, the Dowager Marchioness of Tweeddale died on 24 November 1977.

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Christ Church, Eton College, Christ Church, Oxford
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Maj. William George Montagu Hay, William George Montagu Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale

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William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale

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Who was William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale?

Scottish peer

When was William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale born?

William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale was born on 4 November 1884.

When did William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale die?

William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale died on 30 March 1967.

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· Wikipedia: William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale

· Wikidata: Q70011676

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