Edward Drummond-Hay (Royal Navy officer)
Sir Edward Hay Drummond-Hay (4 March 1815 – 24 January 1884)[1] was a British naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator.
He was born in England, son of Edward Drummond Hay, who was a nephew of the ninth Earl of Kinnoul, and educated at Charterhouse[2] and was a Colonel of the 5th West India Regiment from 6 November 1854 to 15 August 1863.
From 1839 to 1850 he was the President of the British Virgin Islands
From 1850 to 1855 he was the Governor of Saint Kitts
From 1856 to 3 July 1863 he was the Governor of Saint Helena.[3]
While he was governor of Saint Helena he devoted much of his attention to public works amongst which were the settlement Rupert's valley and the main drainage works of Jamestown. In 1857 the church of St. John was started, and in 1861 the church of St. Matthew at Hut's Gate was built.
In September 1860, the governor received a visit from Prince Alfred, who was an officer in the Royal Navy serving on H.M.S. Euralus.[4]
References
- ^ The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire. 1890. p. 363. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
- ^ Parish, William Douglas (1879). List of Carthusians, 1800–1879. Lewes: Farncombe and Co. p. 114. OCLC 37118353. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
- ^ http://sainthelenaisland.info/governor.htm
- ^ "Public Works and Royal Visit"
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