The Drummond-Hay family consists of Sir Robert William Hay (1786-1861), Under Secretary of State for the Colonies; Edward William Auriol Drummond-Hay (1785-1845), Consul General in Tangier; Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay (1816-93), diplomat, Consul General and subsequently minister plenipotentiary in Morocco; Sir Robert Hay Drummond-Hay (1846-1936), diplomat at Tangier, Stockholm, Tunis and Beirut; Alice Emily Drummond-Hay (d 1940), daughter of Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay; and Cicely Eleanor Meade-Waldo (d 1935), niece of Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay. Details of Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay are given in the Dictionary of National Biography. Details of Sir Robert Hay Drummond-Hay are given in Who Was Who.

The collection consists of:

• Papers of Sir Robert William Hay, 1805-52, including journals, correspondence, papers and drawings
• Papers of Edward William Auriol Drummond-Hay, 1829-45, including journals, correspondence, and notebooks
• Papers of Sir John Hay Drummond-Hay, 1838-1901, including journals, diaries and correspondence
• Papers of Sir Robert Hay Drummond-Hay, 1856-1924, including journals and correspondence
• Papers of Alice Emily Drummond-Hay, 1866-1938, including correspondence, a history of the Drummond-Hay family and translations of a novel
• Papers of Cicely Eleanor Meade-Waldo, 1856-1925, including journals, correspondence and notebooks
• Miscellaneous papers of the Drummond-Hay family, 1771-1951

The papers were given to the Library through the Colonial Records Project in 1980.

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Diplomatic and consular service, British

Diaries | 19th century

Diaries | 20th century

Drummond-Hay | Alice Emily | d 1940

Drummond-Hay | Edward William Auriol | 1785-1845 | Consul in Morocco

Drummond-Hay | John Hay | 1816-1893 | Sir | Knight Diplomat

Drummond-Hay | Robert Hay | 1846-1926 | Sir | Knight Diplomat

Hay | Robert William | 1786-1861 | Under Secretary for Colonial Affairs

Meade-Waldo | Cicely Eleanor | d 1935

Beirut (Lebanon)

Morocco

Stockholm (Sweden)

Tangier (Morocco)

Tunis (Tunisia)