Colonel Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay (7 June 1814 - 3 January 1896) was a Scottish

Scotland

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 ornithologist.

He was the son of Vice-Admiral Sir Adam Drummond, K.C.B., of Megginch Castle

Megginch Castle

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, Perthshire

Perthshire

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. In June 1832 he received his commission in the 42nd Royal Highlanders

42nd Regiment of Foot

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, serving in Ireland

Ireland

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, Malta

Malta

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, Corfu

Corfu

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, Bermuda

Bermuda

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, and Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Drummond-Hay was the first president of the British Ornithologists' Union

British Ornithologists' Union

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 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

Tayside

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, especially the formation of the Perth Museum

Perth Museum and Art Gallery

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