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HAY-DRUMMOND, HON. ROBERT, brother of Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (qv); b. 10 Nov 1711; adm. Mar 1717/8; whilt taking the part of Brutus in a performance of Julius Caesar acted by boys from the school before King George II and Queen Caroline “at the theatre over against the Opera House” 20 Jan 1727/8, the plume of ostrich feathers which he wore caught fire; perfectly unembarrassed, he pulled the cap off his head, and went on with his speech as if nothing had happened (memoir prefixed to his Sermons on Public Occasions, 1803, xii, note, and Life and Correspondence of Mrs Delaney, i, 158); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Apr 1728 (HMC Portland vii, 459), Canoneer Student 16 Jul 1728 – void 19 Aug 1737, expiry year of grace as R. Bothal from 11 Sep 1736; BA 1731; MA 1735; DD 1745; assumed additional surname of Drummond 1730 [check date], according to deed of entail of his great-grandfather Viscount Strathallan; Grand Tour (Italy) 1734, with Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds (qv); member, Society of Dilettanti 1736; ordained deacon and priest 1736; Rector of Bothal, Northumberland, 1736 (still 1748); Chaplain in Ordinary to George II Aug 1737-48; attended George II during German campaign of 1743; preached thanksgiving sermon for battle of Dettingen at Hanau; Prebendary of Westminster 29 Apr 1743 – Apr 1748; Rector of Shipwash, Northumberland, by 1748; consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph 24 Apr 1748; on 22 Feb 1753/4 he eloquently defended in House of Lords his former schoolfellows Andrew Stone (qv), William Murray (qv) and James Johnson (qv), who were charged with having drunk the health of the Pretender; translated to Salisbury 11 Jun 1761; preached Coronation sermon in Westminster Abbey 22 Sep 1761; translated to Archbishopric of York 23 Oct 1761; Privy Councillor 7 Nov 1761; Lord High Almoner from 17 Nov 1761; Busby Trustee 11 Apr 1764; six of his sermons, together with his Letter on Theological Study and a short memoir, were published by his youngest son in 1803; m. 31 Jan 1748/9 Henrietta, dau. of Peter Auriol, London, merchant; d. 10 Dec 1776. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.