Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll

The Right Honourable

The Countess of Erroll
The Right Honourable; The Countess of Erroll
	The Countess of Erroll in 1842, by Henry Richard Graves
Born	Elizabeth FitzClarence; 17 January 1801; Bushy House, Teddington, England
Died	16 January 1856 (aged 54); Edinburgh, Scotland
Noble family	FitzClarence
Spouse(s)	William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll (m. 1820; died 1846)
Issue	Ida Noel, Countess of Gainsborough; William Hay, 19th Earl of Erroll; Agnes Duff, Countess Fife; Lady Alice Stuart;
Father	William IV
Mother	Dorothea Jordan

Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll (née FitzClarence; 17 January 1801 – 16 January 1856) was an illegitimate daughter of King William IV of the United Kingdom and Dorothea Jordan. She married William Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll, and became Countess of Erroll on 4 December 1820^[2] at age 19. Due to Hay's parentage, William Hay became Lord Steward of the Household.^[3] Elizabeth and William Hay married at St George's, Hanover Square.^[4]^[5] Hay is pictured in a FitzClarence family portrait in House of Dun, and kept a stone thrown at her father William IV and the gloves he wore on opening his first Parliament as mementos.^[6]

In 1856, while ill herself, she was summoned from Scotland to visit her dying brother Adolphus. Her illness worsened and she died on the journey in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[1]^[7]

Children and descendants

Elizabeth and William Hay together had four children.^[8]

Lady Ida Harriet Augusta Hay (18 October 1821 – 22 October 1867), was one of Queen Victoria's bridesmaids, was the Hays' firstborn child and daughter. She married Charles Noel, 2nd Earl of Gainsborough and had five children.
William Hay, 19th Earl of Erroll (3 May 1823 – 3 December 1891), wed to Eliza Amelia Gore on 20 September 1848, was the second child and firstborn son.
Lady Agnes Georgiana Elizabeth Hay (12 May 1829 – 18 December 1869), wed to James Duff on 16 March 1846, was the third child and second daughter. Lady Agnes Hay's son, Alexander Duff, married Princess Louise, daughter of King Edward VII.^[9]
Lady Alice Mary Emily Hay (7 July 1835 – 7 June 1881)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll

16. George II of Great Britain

8. Frederick, Prince of Wales

17. Margravine Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach

4. George III of the United Kingdom

18. Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

9. Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha

19. Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst

2. William IV of the United Kingdom

20. Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

10. Duke Charles Louis Frederick of Mecklenburg

21. Princess Christiane of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

5. Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

22. Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

11. Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen

23. Countess Sophia Albertine of Erbach-Erbach

1. Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll

24. James Bland

12. Nathaniel Bland

25. Lucy Brewster

6. Francis Bland

13. Elizabeth Heaton

3. Dorothea Bland

7. Grace Phillips

References

^ ^a ^b Lundy, Darryl (11 April 2008). "Elizabeth Fitz-Clarence". The Peerage. Retrieved 3 March 2009.
^ Burke, John (1826). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for M.D.CCC.XXVI. London: H. Colburn. pp. 109.
^ Taylor, James (1887). The Great Historic Families of Scotland.
^ Chapmen, John Henry; George John bart Armytage; George John Armytage, eds. (1896). The Register Book of Marriages Belonging to the Parish of St. George. Mitchell & Hughes. pp. 384. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
^ Paul, James Balfour (1906). 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. University of Michigan: D. Douglas.
^ Aitken, Margaret (2004). Six Buchan Villages Revisited: Re-visited. Scottish Cultural Press. pp. 32, 71. ISBN 978-1-84017-051-1.
^ "English news: Personal matters". The Tasmanian Daily News. Hobart Town, Tasmania. 10 May 1856. p. 6. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
^ Lodge, Edmund; Anne Innes; Eliza Innes; Maria Innes (1851). The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Saunders and Otley. pp. 222.
^ Dillon, Charles Raymond (2002). Royals and Nobles: A Genealogist's Tool. iUniverse. p. 460. ISBN 0-595-25938-3.

Bibliography

Walford, Edward, "Hardwicke's Annual biography" (1857) p. 209
de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar, Peter, Roger S. Powell, "Right Royal Bastards: The Fruits of Passion" (2007) ISBN 0-9711966-8-0

[peerage_1-1] Lundy, Darryl (11 April 2008). "Elizabeth Fitz-Clarence". The Peerage. Retrieved 3 March 2009.

[burke-2] Burke, John (1826). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom, for M.D.CCC.XXVI. London: H. Colburn. pp. 109.

[taylor-3] Taylor, James (1887). The Great Historic Families of Scotland.

[4] Chapmen, John Henry; George John bart Armytage; George John Armytage, eds. (1896). The Register Book of Marriages Belonging to the Parish of St. George. Mitchell & Hughes. pp. 384. Retrieved 13 July 2009.

[scots'_peerage-5] Paul, James Balfour (1906). 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. University of Michigan: D. Douglas.

[6] Aitken, Margaret (2004). Six Buchan Villages Revisited: Re-visited. Scottish Cultural Press. pp. 32, 71. ISBN 978-1-84017-051-1.

[7] "English news: Personal matters". The Tasmanian Daily News. Hobart Town, Tasmania. 10 May 1856. p. 6. Retrieved 4 January 2020.

[Lodge1-8] Lodge, Edmund; Anne Innes; Eliza Innes; Maria Innes (1851). The Peerage of the British Empire as at Present Existing. Saunders and Otley. pp. 222.

[dillon-9] Dillon, Charles Raymond (2002). Royals and Nobles: A Genealogist's Tool. iUniverse. p. 460. ISBN 0-595-25938-3.

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