Robert William Hay
Born1786
Westminster, London, England
Died9 May 1861
Malta
NationalityBritish
OccupationPublic official
Parent(s)Rev. George William Auriol Hay-Drummond
Elizabeth Margaret (Marshall) Hay-Drummond
RelativesRobert Hay Drummond (paternal grandfather)

Robert William Hay (1786–1861) was a British public official.

Biography

Early life

Robert William Hay was born in 1786 in Westminster, London, England.[1] His father was Reverend George William Auriol Hay-Drummond and his mother Elizabeth Margaret (Marshall) Hay-Drummond.[1] His paternal grandfather was Robert Hay Drummond (1711–1776), who served as the Archbishop of York from 1761 to 1776.[1]

He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1807 and a Master of Arts degree in 1809.[1]

Career

From 1812 to 1824, he served as Private Secretary to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811), who was First Lord of the Admiralty, and then served as Victualling Commissioner in the British Royal Navy.[1]

He served as the Permanent Under-Secretaries of State for the Colonies from 1825 to 1836.[1][2][3] However, James Stephen (1789–1859) is credited with doing much of the work.[1]

In 1831, Hay was appointed to serve on the Government Commission upon Emigration, which was wound up in 1832.[4]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1814.[5]

Death

He died on 9 May 1861 in Malta.[1]

Legacy

  • Hay Street, a major road in the central business district of Perth, Western Australia, is named in his honour.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Hay, Robert William (1786–1861), Australian Dictionary of Biography
  2. ↑ Robert Charles Lee, The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826–1853: Personalities, Profits and Politics, Dundurn, 2004, p. 230
  3. ↑ Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica & Barbados, 1823–1843, Chapel Hill, North Carolina: UNC Press Books, 1995, p. 26
  4. ↑ "Emigration from the United Kingdom" (PDF). Journal of the Statistical Society of London. 1 (3): 156–157. July 1838. doi:10.2307/2337910. JSTOR 2337910 – via JSTOR.
  5. ↑ "Fellows details". Royal Society. Retrieved 23 January 2017.


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