User:Chaetodipus/William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll

William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll, KT, GCH, PC (21 February 1801 – 19 April 1846), known as Lord Hay until 1819, was a Scottish peer. Hay was the son of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll, and his wife Alice (née Eliot). His paternal grandfather was James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll, son of William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (who was attained with his titles forfeited in 1746). In 1831 the Kilmarnock title held by his great-grandfather was revived when he was created Baron Kilmarnock, of Kilmarnock in the County of Ayr, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Educated at Eton, Lord Erroll married Lady Elizabeth FitzClarence, the illegitimate daughter of William IV and Dorothy Jordan, on 4 December 1820. They were the parents of four children. :

Probably due to FitzClarence's parentage, he was made Lord Steward of the Household. Under the Whig Ministry of 1830 he was made Master of the Buckhounds; in 1831 became a Peer of the United Kingdom by the title of Baron Kilmarnock, and in 1832 Knight-Marischal of Scotland, and Lord-Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire.

William Hay died in London, England in 1846 and was succeeded by his eldest son, William.

Other readings

 * Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.