Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay

Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay

Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay (born June 7, 1814 Megginch Castle , in Perth and Kinross , Scotland , † January 3, 1896 ) was a Scottish ornithologist and ichthyologist .

family

He was the youngest son of Vice-Admiral Sir Adam Drummond , KCB , of Megginch Castle, Perthshire and Charlotte Murray, the daughter of John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl .

On 12 October 1859 he married in Perth Charlotte Elizabeth Richardson Hay (* 1834 , † 27. April 1914 ) from the house Seggieden and Aberage and led from now on the name of Drummond-Hay. They had six children:

• Constance Margaret Jane (March 15, 1862 - February 4, 1944)
• James Adam Gordon (August 5, 1863 - December 27, 1928)
• Alice Charlotte (May 6, 1865 - January 23, 1956)
• Lucy Barbara (August 31, 1866-1954)
• Henry Maurice (October 22, 1869 - November 2, 1932)
• Edith Maud (February 28, 1872 - February 20, 1960)

Military career

In June 1832 he was appointed to the 42nd Royal Highlanders , a Scottish infantry regiment , and served in Ireland , Malta , Corfu , Bermuda and Halifax in Nova Scotia during his twenty years of service . On December 4, 1833 he was promoted to Ensign , on December 15, 1838 to lieutenant and by the time he retired from military service in 1852 he was already a captain and was promoted to major on June 8, 1854 . A short time later he moved to the Perthshire Rifles and led the regiment as a lieutenant colonel during the Crimean War . In 1872 Colonel Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay finally retired.

Live and act

Even in his youth, Henry Maurice Drummond was interested in field research . After studying modern languages, he went to Switzerland and learned taxidermy in the workshop of Max H. Linder, then the most important authority in the field of ornithology in the Alpine region . During his military service he studied the birds and fish in the countries where he was stationed and was in correspondence with ornithologists William Jardine and Hugh Edwin Strickland . In 1835, Drummond claims to have been the first to discover the Olive Mocker ( Hippolais olivetorum ), which Strickland described two years later.

When Drummond was stationed in Malta he also devoted himself to ichthyology and made numerous colored drawings of the fish in collaboration with Antonio Schembri . In 1843, during his vacation, he accompanied Thomas Graves , captain of the ship HMS Meteor , on the voyage from Malta to Crete. From April 27 to June 18, 1843 he studied the bird world there and published his findings in the article Two Months in the Island of Crete. His company was later stationed in the Bahamas and eventually Halifax. On the voyage back to Scotland in December 1852 he saw a giant aalk from the ship and later claimed he was the last to see a living specimen.

Drummond was the first President of the British Ornithologists' Union and, in 1858, one of the twenty founders of the Ibis Journal . In the last twenty years of his life he devoted himself to the natural history of Perthshire and Tayside and most of all to the creation of the Perth Museum .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charlotte Elizabeth Richardson-Hay at genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ The Annual Register, or a View of the History and Politics of the Year 1859 , Volume 101, London 1860, p. 403 ( online )
3. ↑ Descendants of King Henry VII on angelfire.com
4. ↑ The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine , Part 1, London 1833, p. 140 ( online )
5. ↑ The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine , Volume 26, Part 1, London 1838, p. 142 ( online )
6. ^ TL Behan, Bulletins and Other State Intelligence for the Year 1854 , Part 1, p. 738 ( online )
7. ↑ Ibis Jubilee supplement 1908