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Marquess of Tweeddale#Present peer

{{Short description|Scottish peerage}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox nobility title

| name = Marquessate of Tweeddale

| image = File:Coat of arms of the marquess of Tweeddale.png

| image_size =

| alt =

| caption = Arms: Quarterly: 1st & 4th, Argent, three Escutcheons Gules (Hay); 2nd, Gules, three Bars Ermine (Gifford); 3rd, Azure, three Cinquefoils Argent (Fraser). Crest: A Goat's Head erased Argent, armed Or. Supporters: On either side a Buck proper, attired and unguled Or, each gorged with a Collar Azure, charged with three Cinquefoils Argent.

| creation_date = 17 December 1694

| creation =

| monarch = Mary II & William II

| peerage = Peerage of Scotland

| baronetage =

| first_holder = John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale

| last_holder =

| present_holder = Charles David Montagu Hay, 14th Marquess of Tweeddale

| heir_apparent =

| heir_presumptive = Lord Alistair Hay, Master of Tweeddale

|remainder_to=The 1st Marquess' heirs male whatsoever| subsidiary_titles = {{plainlist|

  • Earl of Tweeddale
  • Earl of Gifford
  • Viscount of Walden
  • Lord Hay of Yester
  • Baron Tweeddale (United Kingdom)

}}

| status = Extant

| extinction_date =

| family_seat =

| former_seat = Yester House

| motto = SPAIR NOUGHT

| footnotes =

}}

Marquess of Tweeddale (sometimes spelled Tweedale) is a title of the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1694 for the 2nd Earl of Tweeddale. Lord Tweeddale holds the subsidiary titles of Earl of Tweeddale (created 1646), Earl of Gifford (1694), Viscount of Walden (1694), Lord Hay of Yester (1488), and Baron Tweeddale, of Yester in the County of Haddington (1881),{{London Gazette |issue=25021 |date=30 September 1881 |page=4891}} all but the last in the Peerage of Scotland.{{Citation|title=TWEEDDALE 14th Marquis of|work=Who's Who 2010|publisher=A & C Black|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U45866|access-date=25 Feb 2010}} (Subscription or library card required for online edition.) As Baron Tweeddale in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, Lord Tweeddale sat between 1881 and 1963 in the House of Lords. The Marquess's eldest son uses Viscount Walden as a courtesy title.

Lord Tweeddale also holds the title of Hereditary Chamberlain of Dunfermline.

The family seat was Yester House, near Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland.

Lords Hay of Yester (1488)

Earls of Tweeddale (1646)

Marquesses of Tweeddale (1694)

Present peer

Charles David Montagu Hay, 14th Marquess of Tweeddale (born 6 August 1947) is the son of the 12th Marquess and his wife Sonia Mary Peake, daughter of Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby and Lady Joan Rachel de Vere Capell. He was educated at Milton Abbey School and Trinity College, Oxford. In February 2005 he succeeded as Marquess of Tweeddale (1694), Earl of Tweeddale (1646), Baron Tweeddale of Yester (1881), Earl of Gifford (1694), Viscount of Walden (1694), and Lord Hay of Yester (1488).Burke's Peerage, volume 3 (2003), p. 3965

The heir presumptive is the present holder's brother Lord Alistair Hay (b. 1955), whose heir presumptive is his half-brother Lord Andrew Arthur George Hay (b. 1959), whose heir apparent is his son Angus David George Hay (b. 1991).

Coat of Arms

File:Lord Hay of Yester arms.svg|Arms of the Lord Hay of Yester

File:Marquess of Tweeddale arms.svg|Arms of the Earls of Tweeddale and the 1st-10th Marquesses of Tweeddale

File:Coat of arms of the marquess of Tweeddale.png|Arms from the 11th Marquess of Tweeddale

Family tree and succession

{{Tweeddale family tree}}

{{Collapse top|title={{small|Line of succession (simplified)}}{{cite book |year=2019|chapter=Tweeddale, Marquess of |editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=Susan |editor2-last=Bosberry-Scott |editor2-first=Wendy |editor3-last=Belfield |editor3-first=Gervase |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|volume=1 |edition=150th |location=London |publisher=Debrett's Ltd. |publication-date=|pages=3442–3446 |arxiv= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn=978-1-999767-0-5-1}}}}

{{tree list}}

  • 35px George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale (1753–1804)
  • 35px George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale (1787–1876)
  • 35px Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (1824–1878)
  • 35px William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale (1826–1911)
  • 35px William Hay, 11th Marquess of Tweeddale (1884–1967)
  • Lord Edward Douglas John Hay (1888–1944)
  • 35px David Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale (1921–1979)
  • 35px Edward Hay, 13th Marquess of Tweeddale (1947–2005)
  • 35px Charles Hay, 14th Marquess of Tweeddale (b. 1947)
  • (1). Alistair James Montagu Hay (b. 1955){{refn|Does not use his style of Lord.|group= n}}
  • (2). Lord Andrew Arthur George Hay (b. 1959)
  • (3). Angus David George Hay (b. 1991)
  • (4). Hamish Andrew George Hay (b. 2022)
  • (5). Rory Edward Hamish Hay (b. 1993)
  • (6). Lord Hamish David Montagu Hay (b. 1959)
  • Lord James Hay (1788–1862)
  • James Gordon Hay (1815–1883)
  • Malcolm Vivian Hay of Seaton (1881–1962)
  • James Malcolm Hay of Seaton (1907–1987)
  • male issue and descendants in remainder
  • Peter Brian Hay (1918–2004)
  • male issue in remainder
  • Cuthbert Joseph Hay (1882–1970)
  • Ronald Cuthbert Hay (1916–2001)
  • male issue and descendants in remainder
  • John Malcolm Hay (1918–201?)
  • male issue and descendants in remainder

There are further heirs to the marquessate descended from the first Earl of Tweeddale.

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Notes

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See also

References

Further reading

  • {{Citation|chapter=The Hays of Tweeddale|title=The Great Historic Families of Scotland

|first=James|last=Taylor |author-link = James Taylor (Presbyterian minister)|year=1887|chapter-url=http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/families/hays_tweeddale.htm}}. Online at electricscotland.com.

  • {{Citation|pages=1421–1423|work=Peerage & Baronetage|title=TWEEDDALE, MARQUESS OF (Hay) (Marquess S 1694). Charles David Montagu Hay, 14th Marquess|publisher=Debrett's|date=November 2007|

isbn=978-1-870520-80-5|editor-last=Kidd|editor-first=Charles|editor2-last=Shaw|editor2-first=Christine|editor3-first=M L|editor3-last=Bierbrier|editor4-first=Lydia|editor4-last=Collins}}. (Online at [http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/455/525/3731/3/1569?dps= Exact Editions] and [http://www.worldcat.org/title/debretts-peerage-and-baronetage/oclc/507008130?title=&detail=&page=frame&linktype=digitalObject&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.credoreference.com%2Fvol%2F567%26checksum%3Db9f73cc5bd22df9561c2913215026bff Credo Reference]. Subscription or library card required.)

External links

  • {{Hansard-contribs | lord-william-hay | William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale }}

{{Extant British marquesses}}

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