General Lord James Hay

General Lord James Hay was born on 23 March 1788. He was the son of George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale and Lady Hannah Charlotte Maitland. He married Elizabeth Forbes, daughter of James Forbes, on 18 August 1813. He died on 18 August 1862 at age 74.

Fought in four of the major battles of The Peninsula Campaign

Lord James Hay (1788 - 1862) was active during the Napoleonic Wars, and was present at Waterloo. He became Colonel of the 86th Regiment of Foot in 1854, and was a director of the Aberdeen Railway Company, serving as chairman for the period 1848 - 1854. His marriage to Elizabeth Forbes produced four children, though only three survived. Their eldest daughter, Margueritte Louise, married the French artist, Gudin, later Baron Gudin; a second daughter, Georgiana, remained unmarried; and their son, James Gordon, who inherited the estate was father of Malcolm Vivian Hay (1881 - 1962), last Laird of Seaton.

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Family Elizabeth Forbes b. before 1798, d. 30 September 1861

Children James Gordon Hay+ b. 15 Oct 1815, d. 8 Feb 1883

Margarette Louise Hay+ b. 1820, d. 18901

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For further details see A. and H. Tayler, The House of Forbes (Third Spalding Club, 1937), pp 368-381, 450, 452; I.A. Hay, Valiant for Truth, Malcolm Hay of Seaton (1971); G.C. Williams, nee Hay, The Ancestral Home of the Hays of Seaton, in Aberdeen University Review, 42 (1968), 133-135. Rachel Hart Reports and Surveys of Archives in Northern Scotland , in Northern Scotland, 8 (1988), 69-71.