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Colonel Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale (9 November 1824 – 29 December 1878), known before 1862 as Lord Arthur Hay and between 1862 and 1876 as Viscount Walden, was a Scottish soldier and ornithologist. He was born at Yester, Gifford, East Lothian. He served as a soldier in India and the Crimea. He succeeded his father to the Marquessate in 1876. He died at Chislehurst, and was succeeded by his brother.
Hay purchased a lieutenantcy in the Grenadier Guards[1] in 1841. He purchased a captaincy in 1846 and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase in 1854 and Colonel in 1860. In 1866 he transferred to the 17th Lancers.
He was president of the Zoological Society of London from 16 January 1868.[2][3] His ornithological works were published privately in 1881 by his nephew, Captain Robert George Wardlaw-Ramsay, with a memoir by Dr W. H. Russell, and the attribution Walden is used in taxonomic listings.[4]
He had a large private collection of birds,[5] insects, reptiles and mammals. He employed Carl Bock to travel to the Malay archipelago and collect specimens. Tweeddale described about 40 species collected by Bock for the first time.
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- ^ Singh, Bawa Satinder; Hardinge, Charles Stewart (2001). My Indian peregrinations: the private letters of Charles Stewart Hardinge, 1844-1847. Lubbock, Tex: Texas Tech University Press. pp. 155. ISBN 0-89672-444-1. http://books.google.com/books?id=20RRPSTX740C&pg=PA155&dq=%22Arthur+Hay%22++9th+Marquess+of+Tweeddale&as_brr=3&ei=jLO0SOm-N4TkygTcm52MCw&sig=ACfU3U24Gr1BAsbKBIBe9ZlXggGR3Q_1Dw.
- ^ Celia Lowe (2006). Wild profusion: biodiversity conservation in an Indonesian archipelago. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. pp. 175. ISBN 0-691-12462-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=eGbr8WAQz8UC&pg=PA175&dq=%22Arthur+Hay%22++9th+Marquess+of+Tweeddale&as_brr=3&ei=jLO0SOm-N4TkygTcm52MCw&sig=ACfU3U3suRQ_Zq5Rg2KIc3q7_doXbvrkrA#PPT1,M1.
- ^ Scherren, Henry (1905). The Zoological Society of London. Cassell & Co.. http://www.archive.org/details/zoologicalsociet00scheuoft.
- ^ Ramsay, R G (1881) The ornithological works of Arthur, ninth Marquis of Tweeddale scanned
- ^ The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. Adamant Media Corporation. 2000. pp. 52. ISBN 140218140X. http://books.google.com/books?id=ZWtjNPH5w58C&pg=PA52&dq=%22Arthur+Hay%22++9th+Marquess+of+Tweeddale&as_brr=3&ei=jLO0SOm-N4TkygTcm52MCw&sig=ACfU3U3rzllaM8MhgM4ymipemqmGbWQ_uQ.
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| Preceded by George Hay |
Marquess of Tweeddale 1876–1878 |
Succeeded by William Hay |
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