Tomb inscription · 1851
Lauderdale Hay
- Date
- 21 September 1851
- Place
- Stephens
- Plot
- Serial 2274
- Inscription
- Ensign Lauderdale Hay, 39th Regiment, M.N.I., son of Rear Admiral Hay and Mary Stewart, his wife, born at Belton East Lothian N.B., 31st October 1829, died 21st September 1851.
- Notes
- Admiral Hay (d. 1857) was a great-grandson of the first Marquess of Tweedale. Another son David, a Lieutenant in the B.N.I., died June 6th, 1858. The Tweedale family has many connexions with India. The tenth Marquess was formerly in the B.C.S., and subsequently in Parliament. The eighth Marquess, a Field Marshal, was Governor of Madras from 1842 to 1848.