Sir Adam Hay, 7th Baronet (14 December 1795 – 18 January 1867)[1] was a Scottish baronet and politician.
Early life
Hay was born on 14 December 1795 at Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the younger son of
Sir John Hay, 5th Baronet of Smithfield and Haystoun
FRSE (1755–1830), banker and landowner, and Mary Elizabeth Forbes. He was the brother of
Sir John Hay, 6th Baronet, whom he succeeded in the family baronetcy,[2] and his uncle was the banker, George Forbes
FRSE.[3]
On 23 March 1823, he married Henrietta Callender Grant, a daughter of William Grant and Dorothea Dalrymple. Her sister, Louisa Grant, was the wife of the Hon. William Keith-Falconer (younger son of the
6th Earl of Kintore).[4] Together, Adam and Henrietta lived at 12 Atholl Crescent in Edinburgh's West End,[5] and were the parents of several children, including:
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abFisher, David R. (2009). D.R. Fisher (ed.).
"HAY, Adam (1795-1867)". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved 26 June 2014.