Name George 7th Died August 9, 1804 | Parents John Hay Grandparents Lord William Hay | |
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Children George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale Grandchildren Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale Great-grandparents John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale | ||
George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale DL (1753 – 9 August 1804) was a Scottish peer.
Hay was a great-grandson of the 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, and in 1787 he inherited the titles of his first cousin once-removed, the 6th Marquess. He then became a Burgess of Edinburgh a year later, Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire in 1794, and a Scottish representative peer in 1796. On 18 April 1785, he married Lady Hannah Maitland (a daughter of the 7th Earl of Lauderdale) and they had (with two other unmarried daughters):
As a result of the marquess's declining health, he and his wife went to travel the Continent in 1802, starting in France. It was here that they were captured by Napoleon's police a year later, with other British subjects, when war was renewed between the two countries. 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.