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Merlin Sereld Victor Gilbert Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll (born 20 April 1948) is a cross-bench member of the House of Lords , Chief of the Scottish clan Hay , and hereditary Lord High Constable of Scotland .[1]
Early life and education Lord Erroll is the son of Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk and Diana, Countess of Erroll . He was page to the Lord Lyon in 1956. He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, Cambridge .
Earl of Erroll He succeeded his mother, the countess, in 1978 as Earl of Erroll , and in 1985, his father as a Baronet . He is a member of the Council of the Hereditary Peerage Association .[2] Peregrine took over their father as Chief of Clan Moncreiffe .
Marriage and family He married Isabelle Jacqueline Laline Astell Hohler (b. Brussels , 22 August 1955), daughter of Major Thomas Sidney Hohler and heiress to the family of Astell, of Everton House, Bedfordshire,[3] Royal Caledonian Ball [4] High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 2015.[5]
The couple has two sons and two daughters:
Harry Thomas William Hay, Lord Hay (b. Basingstoke , 8 August 1984), engaged to Clementine Travis [6]
Lady Amelia Diana Jacqueline Hay (b. Basingstoke, 23 November 1986)
Lady Laline Lucy Clementine Hay (b. Basingstoke, 21 December 1987)
Hon. Richard Merlin Iain Hay (b. Basingstoke, 14 December 1990); took the surname of Astell by Royal Licence in 2015.[7] [8] Military and business career The Earl of Erroll has been a lieutenant at the Atholl Highlanders since 1974, and is a Member of the Royal Company of Archers . He served in the 21st SAS Artists Rifles (V) Territorial Army from 1975 to 1990, and was an Honorary Colonel of the Royal Military Police (Territorial Army) from 1992 to 1997.
Erroll has worked as a marketing and computer consultant, is a Freeman of the City of London and a Member of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers , of which he was Prime Warden in 2000–2001. He continues to head the club, Puffin's Club , founded by his father. He is also President of ERADAR the Chamber for Electronic Business,[9] [10]
He is a director of Lasseo , a not-for-profit technical standardization and interoperability membership organisation for smartcard technologies.[11]
Politics Lord Erroll was one of 90 excepted hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords following the House of Lords Act 1999 . A programmer and system designer by trade he sits as a crossbencher and usually speaks on matters relating to cybersecurity and information technology. He was a member of the Science and Technology Committee and criticised Tony Blair 's government for the failure to curb cyber crime after various government agencies, including the Ministry of Defence and HM Revenue and Customs , reported massive losses of data in 2008.[12] Information Committee from 2007 to 2012.
Ancestry
Family of Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll
16. Sir Thomas Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 7th Baronet 8. Thomas Moncreiffe 17. Lady Louisa Hay-Drummond 4. Gerald Moncreiffe (d 3 June 1922) 18. Sir John Muir, 1st Baronet , of Deanston 9. Elizabeth Muir 19. Margaret Kay 2. Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk, 11th Baronet 20. 10. Francois, Count de Miremont , otherwise Guy Francois Roydon Delamere Meredyth de Miremont, apparently descended from the Marquis de Miremont . However, he appears nowhere among the listed descendants of the Austrian counts Resseguier de Miremont (cr. after the 1833 marriage of the marquis de Miremont to an Austro-Hungarian countess). He is possibly a minor cadet of the original French noble house. 21. 5. Hilda de Miremont (d 14 January 1960) md 1stly 1918 Gerald Moncreiffe (d. 1922) 1 son. 22. General N Pearse 11. Edith Anne Pearse, dau of General Pearse. 23. NN Bradley, dau of Jonas Bradley 1. Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll 24. Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll 12. Victor Hay, 21st Earl of Erroll 25. Mary Caroline L'Estrange 6. Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll 26. Sir Allan Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet , of Glen Muick 13. Lucy Mackenzie 27. Lucy Davidson 3. Diana Hay, 23rd Countess of Erroll 28. Reginald Sackville, 7th Earl De La Warr 14. Gilbert Sackville, 8th Earl De La Warr 29. Hon. Constance Baillie-Cochrane 7. Lady Idina Sackville 30. Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey 15. Lady Muriel Brassey 31. Anna Allnutt
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