Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll
Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll (17 January 1801 – 16 January 1856), an illegitimate daughter of William IV and Dorothy Jordan, married William Hay on 4 December, 1820, at the age of 19.[1] Hay was born with the name Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence.[1]
Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence January 7, 1801 |
| Died | January 16, 1856 (aged 55) |
| Other names | Elizabeth Hay; Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence |
| Known for | Child of William IV and Dorothy Jordan |
| Title | Countess of Erroll |
| Spouse(s) | William Hay |
| Children | Lady Adelaide Harriet Augusta Hay; William Harry Hay, 19th Earl of Erroll; Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay; Lady Alice Mary Emily Hay |
She married her husband at St George's, Hanover Square, an Anglican church in Westminster.[2]
She is shown in a Fitzclarence portrait in House of Dun, and she kept a stone thrown at her father William IV and the gloves he wore on opening his first Parliament as keepsakes.[3]
She died on 16 January 1856 in Edinburgh, Scotland, aged 54.[4]
Children and Relatives
With her husband she had four children:[5]
- Lady Adelaide Harriet Augusta Hay (18 October 1821 – 22 October 1867)
- William Harry Hay, 19th Earl of Erroll (3 May 1823 – 3 December 1891), married Eliza Amelia Gore on 20 September 1848
- Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay (12 May 1829 – 18 December 1869). She married James Duff on 16 March 1846. Their son, Alexander Duff, married Princess Louise, who was the daughter of Edward VII.
- Lady Alice Mary Emily Hay (7 July 1835 – 7 June 1881) married Charles Edward Louis Casimir Stuart (1824–1882; known also as Count d'Albanie)[2] nephew of fraud John Sobieski Stuart.
She is also the grandmother of Princess Louise's husband, the Duke of Fife.[6]
David Cameron is related to Elizabeth Hay through William IV, which makes him the fifth cousin, twice removed to the Queen.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Burke, John. A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for M.D.CCC.XXVI (1826). London: H. Colburn. p. 109.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom (1906). University of Michigan: D. Douglas.
- ↑ Aitken, Margaret. Six Buchan Villages Revisited: Re-visited (2004)Scottish Cultural Press. p. 32, 71. ISBN 9781840170511.
- ↑ Burke's Peerage and Baronetage II (1999). Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd. p. 2035.
- ↑ Lodge, Edmund. The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing (1851)Saunders and Otley. p. 222.
- ↑ Dillon, Charles Raymond. Royals and Nobles: A Genealogist's Tool (2002)iUniverse. p. 460. ISBN 0595259383.
- ↑ Bee, Peter Wynter. People of the Day. People of the Day (2007)People of the Day Limited. p. 115. ISBN 978-0954811013.