Marquess of Tweeddale

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Marquessate of Tweeddale
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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 date17 December 1694
Created by Charles I (for the earldom)
Peerage Peerage of Scotland
First holder John Hay, 1st Marquess of Tweeddale
Present holderCharles David Montagu Hay, 14th Marquess of Tweeddale
Heir presumptive Lord Alistair Hay, Master of Tweeddale
Remainder toThe 1st Marquess' heirs male whatsoever
Subsidiary titles
  • Earl of Tweeddale
  • Earl of Gifford
  • Viscount of Walden
  • Lord Hay of Yester
  • Baron Tweeddale (United Kingdom)
StatusExtant
Former seat(s) Yester House
MottoSPAIR NOUGHT

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), [1] all but the last in the Peerage of Scotland. [2] 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.

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Lord Tweeddale also holds the title of Hereditary Chamberlain of Dunfermline. [2]

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 2003 he was living at 336a Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh. On 1 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). [3]

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). [3]

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Family tree and succession

  1. 1 2 The line of James Hay (1788–1862) is the next in the line of succession should the male line of the 12th Marquess fail. The current heir male of this line is Malcolm Charles Hay of Seaton (b.1956)
  2. Andrew Arthur George Hay is second in the line of succession to the Marquessate as his half-brother, Alistair Hay, has no male issue and there is no further male issue from the 12th Marquess's marriage to his first wife.
Line of succession (simplified) [4]
  • Coronet of a British Marquess.svg George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale (1753–1804)
    • Coronet of a British Marquess.svg George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale (1787–1876)
      • Coronet of a British Marquess.svg William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale (1826–1911)
        • Lord Edward Douglas John Hay (1888–1944)
          • Coronet of a British Marquess.svg David Hay, 12th Marquess of Tweeddale (1921–1979)
            • Coronet of a British Marquess.svg Charles Hay, 14th Marquess of Tweeddale (b. 1947)
            • (1). Alistair James Montagu Hay (b. 1955)
            • (2). Lord Andrew Arthur George Hay (b. 1959)
              • (3). Angus David George Hay (b. 1991)
              • (4). Rory Edward Hamish Hay (b. 1993)
            • (5). 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)
            • (6). Malcolm Charles Hay of Seaton (b. 1956)
              • (7). James Malcolm Douglas Hay (b. 1985)
                • (8). Gilbert Christopher Malcolm Hay (b. 2021)
                • (9). Laurence James Wilson Hay (b. 2023)
              • (10). Oliver Charles Quintin Hay (b. 1987)
          • Peter Brian Hay (1918–2004)
            • (11). Angus Malcolm Hay (b. 1947)
            • (12). James Andrew Hay (b. 1949)
        • 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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References

  1. "No. 25021". The London Gazette . 30 September 1881. p. 4891.
  2. 1 2 "TWEEDDALE 14th Marquis of", Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, retrieved 25 February 2010 (Subscription or library card required for online edition.)
  3. 1 2 Burke's Peerage , volume 3 (2003), p. 3965
  4. Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Tweeddale, Marquess of". Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (150th ed.). London: Debrett's Ltd. pp. 3442–3446. ISBN   978-1-999767-0-5-1.

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