Robert Hay, known later as Robert Hay-Drummond of Cromlix and Innerpeffray, was Archbishop of York from 1761 to 1776.
He was the second son of George Hay, Viscount Dupplin (who succeeded his father as eighth Earl of Kinnoull, in 1719), and Abigail, the youngest daughter of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer. He was born in London on 10 November 1711. His birth was mentioned by Jonathan Swift in the Letters to Stella, and his infancy is thus referred to by Richard Bentley in the dedication of his edition of Horace to Lord Oxford, on 8 December 1711: Parvulos duos ex filia nepotes, quorum alter a matre adhuc rubet. ("Two small grandsons from his daughter, of whom one is still red from his mother").
On 31 January 1749 Drummond married Henrietta (d. 1773), daughter of Peter Auriol, a London merchant. Six surviving sons (the eldest of whom, Robert, became tenth earl of Kinnoull) and three daughters attested to the success of the union, but their happiness was later marred by the death, in late childhood, of all three daughters: Henrietta, Abigail, and Charlotte, in 1765, 1766, and 1769 respectively.
In 1773, his wife died. He never recovered this last blow, and died at Bishopthorpe on 10 December 1776. By his own desire he was buried under the altar of the parish church, with as little pomp as possible. Of his five sons the eldest, Robert Auriol, succeeded his uncle, Thomas Hay, as 10th earl of Kinnoull, 1787.
He was the second son of George Hay, Viscount Dupplin (who succeeded his father as eighth Earl of Kinnoull, in 1719), and Abigail, the youngest daughter of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer. He was born in London on 10 November 1711. His birth was mentioned by Jonathan Swift in the Letters to Stella, and his infancy is thus referred to by Richard Bentley in the dedication of his edition of Horace to Lord Oxford, on 8 December 1711: Parvulos duos ex filia nepotes, quorum alter a matre adhuc rubet. ("Two small grandsons from his daughter, of whom one is still red from his mother").
On 31 January 1749 Drummond married Henrietta (d. 1773), daughter of Peter Auriol, a London merchant. Six surviving sons (the eldest of whom, Robert, became tenth earl of Kinnoull) and three daughters attested to the success of the union, but their happiness was later marred by the death, in late childhood, of all three daughters: Henrietta, Abigail, and Charlotte, in 1765, 1766, and 1769 respectively.
In 1773, his wife died. He never recovered this last blow, and died at Bishopthorpe on 10 December 1776. By his own desire he was buried under the altar of the parish church, with as little pomp as possible. Of his five sons the eldest, Robert Auriol, succeeded his uncle, Thomas Hay, as 10th earl of Kinnoull, 1787.
Robert Hay, known later as Robert Hay-Drummond of Cromlix and Innerpeffray, was Archbishop of York from 1761 to 1776.
He was the second son of George Hay, Viscount Dupplin (who succeeded his father as eighth Earl of Kinnoull, in 1719), and Abigail, the youngest daughter of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer. He was born in London on 10 November 1711. His birth was mentioned by Jonathan Swift in the Letters to Stella, and his infancy is thus referred to by Richard Bentley in the dedication of his edition of Horace to Lord Oxford, on 8 December 1711: Parvulos duos ex filia nepotes, quorum alter a matre adhuc rubet. ("Two small grandsons from his daughter, of whom one is still red from his mother").
On 31 January 1749 Drummond married Henrietta (d. 1773), daughter of Peter Auriol, a London merchant. Six surviving sons (the eldest of whom, Robert, became tenth earl of Kinnoull) and three daughters attested to the success of the union, but their happiness was later marred by the death, in late childhood, of all three daughters: Henrietta, Abigail, and Charlotte, in 1765, 1766, and 1769 respectively.
In 1773, his wife died. He never recovered this last blow, and died at Bishopthorpe on 10 December 1776. By his own desire he was buried under the altar of the parish church, with as little pomp as possible. Of his five sons the eldest, Robert Auriol, succeeded his uncle, Thomas Hay, as 10th earl of Kinnoull, 1787.
He was the second son of George Hay, Viscount Dupplin (who succeeded his father as eighth Earl of Kinnoull, in 1719), and Abigail, the youngest daughter of Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer. He was born in London on 10 November 1711. His birth was mentioned by Jonathan Swift in the Letters to Stella, and his infancy is thus referred to by Richard Bentley in the dedication of his edition of Horace to Lord Oxford, on 8 December 1711: Parvulos duos ex filia nepotes, quorum alter a matre adhuc rubet. ("Two small grandsons from his daughter, of whom one is still red from his mother").
On 31 January 1749 Drummond married Henrietta (d. 1773), daughter of Peter Auriol, a London merchant. Six surviving sons (the eldest of whom, Robert, became tenth earl of Kinnoull) and three daughters attested to the success of the union, but their happiness was later marred by the death, in late childhood, of all three daughters: Henrietta, Abigail, and Charlotte, in 1765, 1766, and 1769 respectively.
In 1773, his wife died. He never recovered this last blow, and died at Bishopthorpe on 10 December 1776. By his own desire he was buried under the altar of the parish church, with as little pomp as possible. Of his five sons the eldest, Robert Auriol, succeeded his uncle, Thomas Hay, as 10th earl of Kinnoull, 1787.
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