Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale

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Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale

Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (born November 9, 1824 in Gifford, East Lothian , Scotland , † December 29, 1878 in Chislehurst , London , England ) was a Scottish officer and ornithologist.

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Tweeddale was the second born son of George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale . As the son of a marquess , he had been the courtesy of Lord Arthur Hay since birth . Since his older brother George Hay, Earl of Gifford died in 1862, his father's apparently new marriage took the courtesy title of Viscount Walden . When his father finally died in October 1876, he inherited his title of nobility as Marquess of Tweeddale .

After his schooldays in Leipzig and Geneva Tweeddale served for a time with the Grenadier Guards in India, where he was promoted to lieutenant in 1841, in 1846 to captain, in 1854 to lieutenant colonel and in 1860 to colonel. In 1846 he served as adjutant to Lord Hardinges in the First Sikh War and in the same year traveled to the Himalayas . In 1851 he visited the German states, Austria and Constantinople .

From December 1854 he was used as a captain in the Crimean War and fell ill with cholera . After the end of the war he traveled back to England via Greece , Italy and Switzerland . Another combat mission did not take place. He devoted the rest of his life to ornithology.

In February 1857 he married Helena Eleanora Charlotte Augusta Countess von Kielmansegg, the daughter of the Hanoverian ambassador in London, who died on September 30, 1871. In his second marriage he married Julia Charlotte Sophia Stewart-Mackenzie (1846–1937).

In 1866 he was transferred as an officer to the 17th Lancers Cavalry Regiment .

On January 16, 1868, Tweeddale was elected President of the Zoological Society of London . His ornithological records were published posthumously in 1881 by his nephew Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay (1852-1921). In 1869 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Tweeddale (also known as Walden in taxonomic listings) had a large private collection of birds, insects, reptiles, and mammals. He hired the naturalist Carl Alfred Bock , who collected animals on the Malay Archipelago . These included 40 species that were first described by Tweeddale.

Since his two marriages remained childless, his brother William Hay inherited his nobility titles on his death in 1878 .

Dedication names

The Mayottedrongo ( Dicrurus waldenii ), the Yünnansibia ( Actinodura waldeni ) and the Panayhorn ( Aceros waldeni ) are named after Tweeddale . Richard Bowdler Sharpe also dedicated a subspecies of the turquoise fairy bird ( Irena puella tweeddalei ) to him in 1877 and Richard Crittenden McGregor in 1908 a subspecies of the rust-headed reed riser ( Megalurus timoriensis tweeddalei ).

Works (selection)

  • XII. - Descriptions of some supposed New, or Imperfectly Described, Species of Birds . In: The Madras journal of literature and science . tape 13 , Part I and II, No. 31, 1844 , 1845, pp. 145–164 ( biodiversitylibrary.org [accessed June 1, 2015]).

literature

  • Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins: Whose Bird? Common Bird Names and the People They Commemorate . Yale University Press, New Haven / London 2003.
  • William Howard Russell: Arthur Hay, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale - Biographical Sketch. In: Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay: The Ornithological Works of Arthur, Ninth Marquis of Tweeddale. Taylor & Francis, London 1881, pp. XIII-LXIV.
  • James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 212.
  2. ↑ Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 3, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 3964.
  3. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ James A. Jobling, p. 393.
predecessor Office successor
George Hay Marquess of Tweeddale
1876-1878 		William Hay
personal data
SURNAME Hay, Arthur, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hay, Lord Arthur; Hay, Arthur, Viscount Walden
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish officer and ornithologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Gifford, East Lothian , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1878
Place of death Chislehurst , London , England