George Hay, 14th Earl of Kinnoull

The Right Honourable The Earl of Kinnoull
Earl of Kinnoull, 1920
Personal details
Born	30 March 1902
Died	19 March 1938 (aged 35) London, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Enid Hamilton-Fellows (m. 1923; div. 1927) Mary Meyrick (m. 1928)
Children	Lady Venetia Lady June Arthur Hay
Parents	Edmund Alfred Rollo George, Gladys Luz Bacon

George Harley Hay, 14th Earl of Kinnoull (30 March 1902 – 19 March 1938), styled as Viscount Dupplin from 1903 to 1916, was a Scottish lord. His titles were Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lord Hay of Kinfauns in the Peerage of Scotland; and Baron Hay of Pedwardine in the Peerage of Great Britain.

Biography

Hay was the son of Edmund Alfred Rollo George, Viscount Dupplin (12 November 1879 – 30 May 1903) and Gladys Luz Bacon, granddaughter of Major-General Anthony Bacon.^[1] and great granddaughter of Edward Harley, 5th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer. His father died in 1903 of scarlet fever. He had been visiting Sir Edward Hamilton of Iping when he fell ill.^[2]

Hay was educated at Eton College, and succeeded to the earldom in 1916 on the death of his grandfather, Archibald Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull.^[3]

He entered the House of Lords as a Conservative, but in 1930 joined the Labour Party. Despite his status as a hereditary peer, he rarely missed a debate. In June 1933, it was stated that Lord Hay had not missed a session for the preceding 12 months, and overall had an overall attendance rate of 97 percent.^[3]

The earl worked as a stockbroker and for an insurance company for some time. He filed for bankruptcy in 1926, which garnered press coverage.^[4][5]

He was married twice; the first, in 1923, to Enid Hamilton-Fellows, a granddaughter of Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet. They had one son, who was born in November 1924 and died the following March. They were divorced in 1927.^[6]

He later married Mary Ethel Isobel, daughter of Dr. Ferdinand R. Meyrick and famed nightclub owner Kate Meyrick, and had four children:^[3]

1. Lady Venetia Constance Katherine Luz (born 1929), married Joseph Trevor Davies^[7]
2. Lord Hay (died as an infant in May 1931)
3. Lady June Ann (1932-2002), married Cranley Onslow^[8]
4. Arthur Hay (1935–2013)

He died at a London nursing home, of an unspecified lengthy illness (later reported as pancreatic cancer), at age 35.^[3][9] The earldom passed to his only living son, Arthur.

References

1. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Debrett's. 1902. p. 480.
2. "Obituaries". The Times (The Times Digital Archive). 1 June 1903. p. 4.
3. "Lord Kinnoull". The Times (The Times Digital Archive). 21 March 1938. p. 14.
4. "The Earl Of Kinnoull's Examination". The Times (The Times Digital Archive). 31 July 1926. p. 41.
5. "The Earl Of Kinnoull's Failure". The Times (The Times Digital Archive). 18 March 1927. p. 11.
6. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Debrett's. 1985. p. 689.
7. "Lady Venetia Constance Katherine Luz Davies". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
8. "Lady June Ann Onslow (née Hay)". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
9. http://www.clanhay.org/news/obituary-the-earl-of-kinnoull/