George Hay, 7th Marquess of Tweeddale DL (1753 – 9 August 1804) was a Scottish peer and naval officer.

[2] He then became a Burgess of Edinburgh a year later, Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire in 1794, and a Scottish representative peer in 1796.

[1] On 18 April 1785, he married Lady Hannah Maitland, a daughter of James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale and the former Mary Turner Lombe (daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Lombe, Alderman and Sheriff of London).

Together, George and Hannah were the parents of eleven children, including:[3] As a result of the marquess's declining health, he and his wife went to travel the Continent in 1802, starting in France.

It was here that they were captured by Napoleon's police a year later, with other British subjects, when war was renewed between the two countries.