Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale
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and ornithologist. He was born at Yester, Gifford
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, East Lothian
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. He served as a soldier in India
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and the Crimea
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. He succeeded his father to the Marquessate in 1876. He died at Chislehurst
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, and was succeeded by his brother.
Hay purchased a lieutenant
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cy in the Grenadier Guards
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in 1841. He purchased a captain
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cy in 1846 and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase in 1854 and Colonel
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in 1860. In 1866 he transferred to the 17th Lancers
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.
He was president of the Zoological Society of London
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from 16 January 1868. His ornithological works were published privately in 1881 by his nephew, Captain Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay
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Colonel Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay FLS, FZS was an army officer and naturalist. His father was Robert Balfour Wardlaw Ramsay and his mother Louisa was the third daughter of George, eighth Marquess of Tweeddale. He studied at Cheam and Harrow and joined the Hampshire Regiment in January 1871 and...
, with a memoir by Dr W. H. Russell, and the attribution Walden is used in taxonomic listings.
He had a large private collection of bird
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s, insect
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s, reptile
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s and mammal
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s. He employed Carl Bock to travel to the Malay archipelago
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and collect specimens. Tweeddale described about 40 species collected by Bock for the first time.