Robert Hodshon Cay

Robert Hodshon Cay FSSA LLD (7 July 1758 – 31 March 1810) was Judge Admiral of Scotland overseeing naval trials.

He was husband of the artist Elizabeth Liddell, father of John Cay FRSE and maternal grandfather of James Clerk Maxwell.

[5] In 1793 he moved to 1 George Street, occupying the upper two levels of a large Georgian tenement on the corner of St Andrew Square in Edinburgh's New Town.

[3] His principal estate remainder Charlton Hall in Northumberland which he had inherited from his father.

[9] A copy of this by Isabella Cay (1850-1934) (his granddaughter) hangs in the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation museum.