George Hay, 14th Earl of Kinnoull

Hay was the son of Edmund Alfred Rollo George, Viscount Dupplin (12 November 1879 – 30 May 1903) and Gladys Luz Bacon, granddaughter of Major-General Anthony Bacon[1] and Lady Charlotte Harley. His father died in 1903 of scarlet fever. He had been visiting Sir Edward Hamilton of Iping when he fell ill.[2]

Hay was educated at Eton College, and succeeded to the earldom in 1916 on the death of his grandfather, Archibald Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull.[3]

He entered the House of Lords as a Conservative, but in 1930 joined the Labour Party. Despite his status as a hereditary peer, he rarely missed a debate. In June 1933, it was stated that Lord Hay had not missed a session for the preceding 12 months, and overall had an overall attendance rate of 97 %.[3]

The earl worked as a stockbroker and for an insurance company for some time. He filed for bankruptcy in 1926, which garnered press coverage.[4][5]

He was married twice; the first, in 1923, to Emile Claude Marguerite Hamilton-Fellowes, a granddaughter of Sir Frederick Wills, 1st Baronet. They had one son, who was born in November 1924 and died the following March. They were divorced in 1927.[6]

He later married Mary Ethel Isobel, daughter of Ferdinand R. Meyrick and famed nightclub owner Kate Meyrick, and had four children:[3]

1. Lady Venetia Constance Katherine Luz (born 1929), married Joseph Trevor Davies[7]
2. Lord Hay (died as an infant in May 1931)
3. Lady June Ann (1932-2002), married Cranley Onslow[8]
4. Arthur Hay (1935–2013)

He died at a London nursing home, of an unspecified lengthy illness (later reported as pancreatic cancer), at age 35.[3][9] The earldom passed to his only living son, Arthur.