Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull
{{Short description|Scottish peer (1660–1719)}}
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{{Use British English|date=September 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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|name =The Earl of Kinnoull
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|image =Arms of Hay, Earl of Kinnoull.svg
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|caption =Coat of arms of the Earls of Kinnoull
| office = Shire Commissioner for Perthshire
| term_start = 1693
| term_end = 1697
| office2 = Scottish representative peer
| term_start2 = 10 November 1710
| term_end2 = 5 January 1715
| party= Conservative
|birth_date = 1660
|death_date = 5 January 1719 (age 58-59)
|death_place= London, United Kingdom
|parents ={{Plainlist|
- Peter Hay
- Margaret Boyd }}
|spouse ={{Marriage|Elizabeth Drummond|1683}}
|nationality = Scottish
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- Lady Margaret Hay
- Lady Elizabeth Hay
- George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull}}
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Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull (1660 – 5 January 1719), styled as Viscount Dupplin from 1697–1709, was a Scottish peer and Conservative politician.
Biography
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He was a descendant of Peter Hay of Rattray, Perthshire (younger brother of George Hay, 1st Earl of Kinnoull) and Margaret Boyd.{{cite book|first=James Balfour |last=Paul|author-link=James Balfour Paul|title=The Scots Peerage|date=1908|publisher=D. Douglas |page =229}} Thomas Hay was a Tory member of the Scottish parliament for Perthshire between 1693 and 1697. He was created Viscount Dupplin on 31 December 1697. He resided at the family seat of Balhousie Castle.{{sfn|Paul|1908|p=231}}
William Hay, 6th Earl of Kinnoull, a supporter of King James II and VII, resigned his titles after the king's abdication. William was given a life peerage by Queen Anne and upon his death on 10 May 1709, the titles passed to Thomas.
He was a commissioner for the Union of English and Scottish Parliaments in 1707. He sat in the First Parliament of Great Britain as one of 16 representative peers between 1710 and 1714.{{cite book|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire| volume=42|date=1880|publisher=Henry Colburn|page=708|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u6IaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA708}}
The earl and his heir were briefly imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle on suspicion of Jacobite sympathies during the 1715 uprising.{{sfn|Paul|1908|p=231}}
Marriage and issue
He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Drummond, 1st Viscount Strathallan, on 20 December 1683. They had five children:{{sfn|Paul|1908|p=231}}
- Lady Margaret Hay (30 September 1686 – 26 April 1707), married John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar on 6 April 1703
- Lady Elizabeth Hay (d. 1723), married James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater
- George Henry Hay (23 June 1689 – 28 July 1758), married Lady Abigail Harley, daughter of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
- William Hay, died before 1711
- John Hay of Cromlix (1691–1740) created the Earl of Inverness, married Marjorie Murray, sister to William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield.
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Category:Scottish representative peers
Category:Peers of Scotland created by William II