Edward Drummond-Hay (antiquarian)

Edward William Auriol Drummond-Hay (4 April 1785 – February 1845) was a British soldier, antiquarian and diplomat.

Drummond-Hay was the son of Edward Hay-Drummond and Elizabeth de Vismes, and the grandson of Archbishop Robert Hay Drummond.

On leaving the army, Drummond-Hay pursued his interest in antiquities and history, including undertaking a translation of Frederika Freygang and Wilhelm von Freygang's Letters from the Caucasus and Georgia.

In August 1823, he moved to Edinburgh upon being appointed Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records, the role having been secured through the influence of his cousin, Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull.

His private journals of his journey to Morocco, held by the Bodleian Library, cover the period from 1829 to 1830.

Arms of Edward Drummond-Hay: Quarterly: 1st and 4th grand quarters ; 1st and 4th azure, a unicorn saliant argent, armed, maned and unguled or, within a bordure of the last, charged with eight demi-thistles vert impaled with as many demi-roses gules, for augmentation; 2nd and 3rd argent, three escutcheons gules, for Hay ; 2nd grand quarter, 1st and 4th or three bars wavy gules, surmounted of a scymitar in pale argent, hilted and pomelled of the field, for Drummond, 2nd and 3rd or, a lion's head erased, within a double-tressure flory-counterflory gules, all within a bordure gules. [ 1 ]