Lord Edward Hay

Lord Edward Douglas John Hay DL (2 November 1888 – 18 June 1944) was a British soldier, at the time of his death commanding officer of the Grenadier Guards.

[4] On 5 July 1928, Hay married secondly Audrey Clara Lilian Birkin, a younger daughter of Sir Thomas Latham, 1st Baronet.

She was recently divorced from Sir Tim Birkin, Baronet, a racing driver, and Hay became the step-father of her two small daughters, Pamela and Sara.

[7] On 12 June 1944, the Germans launched Operation Eisbär, a campaign of V-1 flying bomb attacks on the London area.

He married twice and had five children, the eldest of whom, born in 1947, was named Edward Douglas John Hay, after his grandfather, and became 13th Marquess.