and was Midshipman of his flag-ship in the battle of 12 April, 1782; who was afterwards present as a Lieutenant in the actions of 29 May, and 1 June, 1794, and in the mutiny at the Nore in 1797; and who ultimately died while commanding the Queen Charlotte, flag-ship at Portsmouth of Sir Jas. Hawkins Whitshed, 13 May, 1823, in his 63rd year.
This officer entered the Navy, 1 April, 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Puissant 74, Capt. John Irwin, lying at Spithead. From the following June until June, 1814, we find his name successively borne on the books of the Clyde 38, Inconstant 36, and Cornwall 74, all commanded, principally on the Home station, by Sir Edw. Wm. Campbell Rich Owen, by whom, during four months in the winter of 1813-14, he was employed on shore with the army at South Beveland, -where, on one occasion, six French brigs were driven aground by a battery mounting only one 18-pounder. While next cruizing in the Esk 20, Capt. Geo. Gustavus Lennock, Mr. Hay participated in the capture of the Sine quà non American privateer, and in a smart action, off Teneriffe, with two other American vessels, the Grampus and Terpsichore. In Oct. 1815 he removed to the Bulwark 74, flag-ship at the Nore of Sir Chas. Rowley; and on his being subsequently transferred to the Queen Charlotte 100, bearing the flag of Lord Exmouth, he assisted, as a passed Midshipman, at the bombardment of Algiers 27 Aug. 1816; after which event he served for a short period in the Prometheus sloop, Capt. Wm. Bateman Dashwood, and for two years as Master’s Mate in the Conqueror 74, flag-ship at the Cape of Good Hope of Rear-Admiral Robt. Plampin. Being confirmed a Lieutenant 10 April, 1819, in the Tees 26, Capt. Geo. Rennie, Mr. Hay, who continued to serve in that vessel on the station last-mentioned until Aug. 1821, was further, until April, 1831, employed, at home and in the West and East Indies, on board the Ramillies 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, Gloucester 74, Commodore Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, Tyne 28, Capt. John Walter Roberts, Gloucester again, Arachne 18, Capt. Wm. Robt. Ashley Pettman (in which sloop he served as First-Lieutenant from Nov. 1826 until Jan. 1828), Monkey and Nimble schooners, commanded by himself, and Southampton 52, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen, under whom he officiated as Signal-Lieutenant for upwards of two years. When First of the Tyne, of which ship he acted for some time as Captain, Mr. Hay, in 1823, was recommended by his patron Sir E. Owen, to the Admiralty for his conduct during a successful expedition against the pirates of Cuba. The same officer ultimately, in April, 1831, appointed him to the command of the Cruiser 18, and, in the course of the following month, of his own flag-ship, the Southampton, to which the Admiralty confirmed him by commission dated 14 Oct. 1832. He went on half-pay in Jan. 1833, and on 23 Nov. 1841, a few weeks after his rejunction of his friend in the Queen 110, was advanced to the rank he now holds. He has not been since afloat.
Capt. Hay married, 14 Dec. 1842, Clotilda Henrietta, second daughter of Rear-Admiral Edw. Wallis Hoare, R.N.
HAY, Lord, C.B., G.C.C. (Captain, 1818. f-p., 23; h-p., 20.)
The Right Honourable Lord John Hay, born 1 April, 1793, is third son of Geo., seventh Marquess of Tweeddale, by Lady Hannah Charlotte Maitland, daughter of Jas., seventh Earl of Lauderdale. His eldest brother, the present Marquess of Tweeddale, K.T., a Major-General in the Army, and Lord-Lieutenant of co. Haddington, served as Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War, and was wounded in that capacity at the battle of Busaoo, 27 Sept. 1810. Two other of his brothers, Lords Jas. and Edw. Geo. Hay, are officers of high rank in the Army. His Lordship, who is a distant relative of the present Capt. Jas. Hay, R.N., is brother-in-law of John Henry Ley, Esq., Clerk to the House of Commons; and of Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Bart., President of the Board of Control.
This officer entered the Navy, 4 Dec. 1804, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Monarch 74, Capt. John Clarke Searle, bearing the flag in the Downs of Lord Keith, whom he followed, in Aug. 1805, into the Edgar 74. After a further servitude on the Home station in the Egyptienne frigate, and Revenge 74, both commanded by Hon. Chas. Elphinstone Fleeming, Phoebe 36, Capt. Jas. Oswald, and Puissant 74, Capt. John Irwin, he joined, in Dec. 1806, the Seahorse, of 42 guns and 281 men, Capt. John Stewart, attached to the force in the Mediterranean, where he continued until June, 1811. During that period Lord John Hay, besides being in attendance on various diplomatic personages, bore an ample part in many gallant operations against the enemy. Among other services, he was employed in the boats, and lost his left arm at the cutting out of some vessels in Hières Bay; and on the night of 5 July, 1808, he contributed to the capture, after a memorably furious engagement, and a loss to the Seahorse (30 of whose crew were absent) of 5 men killed and 10 wounded, of the Turkish man-of-war Badere Zaffer, mounting 52 guns, with a complement of 543 men, of whom 170 were slain and 200 wounded. The Alis Fezan, of 26 guns and 230 men, a ship which had been also opposed to the Seahorse, was at the same time put to flight. Obtaining a commission 1 May, 1812, Lord John Hay was next appointed, 1 June following, and 31 May, 1814, to the Pique 36, Capt. Hon. Anthony Maitland, and Venerable 74, bearing the flag of the late Sir Philip Durham, both on the West India station. On 15 Nov. in the latter year, having been advanced to the rank of Commander on 15 of the previous June, his Lordship joined the Bustard 10, off Lisbon, and he next, in the course of 1815, obtained command of the Opossum 10, in which sloop he served on the Channel and North American stations until paid off 5 Aug. 1818. He attained Post-rank 7 Dec. following, and was subsequently appointed, 24 Sept. 1832, 19 Nov. 1836, and 8 March, 1837, to the Castor 36, Phoenix steamer, and North Star 28, which vessels he commanded until 1840. He had charge of a battalion of marines, during that period, and acted as Commodore of a small squadron on the north coast of Spain, where the importance of his services as connected with the civil war, especially at the siege of Bilbao, procured him, in 1837, the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III., and the Companionship of the Bath. Lord John Hay, who next, from 17 Aug. 1841 until Oct. 1843, commanded the Warspite 50, on the coast of North America (whither he conveyed Lord Ashburton) and in the West Indies, was succesively appointed in 1846, Acting-Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, Chairman of the Board of Naval Construction, and a Lord of the Admiralty – which latter office he still retains.
His Lordship, a Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Haddington, sat in Parliament for that shire in 1826 and 30. In 1833, he received a large silver medal from the “Society for the Encouragement of Arts,” &c., for his invention of a telescope-holder for the use of a person with only one hand. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
HAY. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 22; h-p., 8.)
John Hay, born 23 March, 1804, is second son, we believe, of Jas. Hay, Esq., of Seggieden, co. Perth, and of Killicranky Cottage, in the pass of Killicranky, a Deputy-Lieutenant for that shire, by Margaret, daughter of John Richardson, Esq., of Pitfour. One of his brothers, Jas. Richardson, is a Captain in the Army; and another, Patrick, is a Lieutenant in the Bengal Native Infantry.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College in Jan. 1817, and embarked 12 Oct. 1819, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Phaeton 46, Capts. Wm. Henry Dillon and Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, of which frigate, employed on the Home and Halifax stations, he soon became Midshipman. On his removal, in 1822, to the Redwing 18, Capt. Hon. Geo. Rolle
