Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay
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Colonel Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay (June 7, 1814 - January 3, 1896) was a Scottish ornithologist.
He was the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Adam Drummond, K.C.B., of Megginch Castle, Perthshire. In June 1832 he received his commission in the 42nd Royal Highlanders, serving in Ireland, Malta, Corfu, Bermuda and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Drummond-Hay was the first president of the British Ornithologists' Union and one of its twenty founders in 1858.
On his marriage to the heiress of Seggieden in 1859 he took her family name of Hay. For the last twenty years of his life he devoted himself to the natural history of Perthshire and Tayside, especially the formation of Perth Museum.
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- Mullens and Swann - A Bibliography of British Ornithology (1917) ISBN 0-854-86098-3
