Edward Auriol Hay-Drummond (10 April 1758, Westminster –30 December 1829), the fifth son of Robert Hay Drummond (1711–76, Archbishop of York) and his wife, Henrietta née Auriol (died 1773), who were married on 31 January 1748.
[3] On 24 May 1791 Edward Hay-Drummond was married again, to Amelia Emily Auriol in St George's, Hanover Square.
[5] They had a daughter, Amelia Auriol Hay-Drummond, on 11 September 1794, in Little Missenden — the daughter later eloped with his curate, George Wilkins, to Gretna Green, where they were married on 2 September 1811, ten days before her 17th birthday.
The couple then returned to live in the parental home in Hadleigh, and went on to have fifteen children, a granddaughter of one of whom was Olave St. Clair Soames, who became World Chief Guide.
[6] Two of his works are still available today:-[7] He is believed to have fathered a total of ten children, including the two mentioned above, and Henrietta and Charlotte.