Colonel Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.
Occupation
ornithologist, zoologist
Position held
President of the British Ornithological Union
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born
June 7, 1814
Died
January 3, 1896
Overview
Colonel Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay (7 June 1814 – 3 January 1896) was a Scottish naturalist and ornithologist.
He was the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Adam Drummond, K.C.B., of Megginch Castle, Perthshire. In June 1832 he received his commission in the 42nd Royal Highlanders, serving in Ireland, Malta, Corfu, Bermuda, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Drummond-Hay was the first president of the British Ornithologists' Union and one of its twenty founders in 1858.
On his marriage to Charlotte Elizabeth Richardson Hay, the heiress of Seggieden, in 1859 he took her family name of Hay. For the last twenty years of his life he devoted himself to the natural history of Perthshire and Tayside, especially the formation of the Perth Museum.
