Victor Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll
Victor Alexander Sereld Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll and 4th Baron Kilmarnock, KCMG (17 October 1876 – 20 February 1928), was a British diplomat, a writer and briefly a member of the House of Lords.
Family
Erroll was the first son of Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll (1852–1927) and his wife Mary, daughter of Edmund and Lady Harriett L'Estrange. He succeeded his father in the earldom in 1927. In 1900, he married Mary Lucy Victoria, only daughter of Sir Allan Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet, of Glen Muick, Aberdeenshire, and they had two sons and one daughter.
- Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, who married Lady Myra Sackville, daughter of the Earl De La Warr, and had issue.
- Gilbert Boyd, 6th Baron Kilmarnock, who married firstly The Hon. Rosemary Guest, daughter of Viscount Wimborne, and had issue. Married secondly Denise Coker, and had issue. He was born Gilbert Hay, but his name was changed to Boyd in 1941.
- Lady Rosemary Hay, who married firstly Lt.-Col. Rupert Ryan and had issue, and married secondly Major James Gresham, without issue.
He held the earldom only briefly, and was succeeded by his elder son, Lord Kilmarnock, in 1928.
Career
The young Hay entered the diplomatic service and was promoted Attaché, 1900, Third Secretary, 1902, Second Secretary, 1906, First Secretary, 1913. He was First Secretary in Copenhagen, 1918–19, then briefly Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin, on the United Kingdom's resumption of diplomatic relations with Germany in 1920, until the arrival of a British Ambassador. He remained in Berlin as Counsellor until November, 1921, and served finally as British High Commissioner to the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission, from December 1920 to May 1928.
He was also an author and belonged to the St James's Club.
Publications
- Ferelith, 1903
- The Dream Kiss (play), produced at the Wimbledon Theatre, 1924
- The Anonymous Letter (play), produced at Q Theatre, 1927
Ancestry
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Notes
References
- ERROLL, Victor Hay, 21st Earl of at Who Was Who 1897–2006 online
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
- Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Earl of Erroll
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Earl of Erroll 1927–1928 |
Succeeded by Josslyn Victor Hay |
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