George Hay (politician)
Sir George Hay (25 January 1715 – 6 October 1778)[1] was a British judge and Member of Parliament (MP) who ultimately committed suicide.
The son of John Hay, a Church of England clergyman who was Rector of St Stephen's, Coleman Street, London, he was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford.[2]
He was Chancellor of the Diocese of Worcester 1751-64; King's Advocate General from 1755-64 (with interval in 1756) and Vicar General to the Archbishop of Canterbury for the same period;[2] He was Dean of Arches 1764–1778[3] and also Judge of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Chancellor of the Diocese of Lichfield for the same period.[2] In 1773, the year he was knighted, he was appointed Judge of the High Court of Admiralty.[2]
In 1754, he was returned as one of the two MPs for Stockbridge,[1] but left the House of Commons in 1756 to take up the post of Commissioner of the Admiralty.[4] He returned to Parliament in July 1757 for Calne[5][6] in Wiltshire, at the request of Pitt the Elder.[citation needed] At the 1761 election, he was returned as MP for Sandwich[7] in Kent, holding that seat until the next election, in 1768, when he stood unsuccessfully for Oxford University. Later that year, through a by-election, he became MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme, holding the seat until his death.[2]
In May 1778, he became ill and was known to be 'lunatic' by August. Arrangements to terminate his legal offices were being made, when in October he escaped from his asylum and drowned himself at the age of 63. He never married.[2]
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Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Stockbridge 1754–1756 With: John Gibbons |
Succeeded by John Gibbons The Viscount Powerscourt |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Calne 1757–1761 With: William Northey |
Succeeded by Thomas Duckett Daniel Bull |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Sandwich 1761–1768 With: The Viscount Conyngham |
Succeeded by Philip Stephens The Viscount Conyngham |
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Newcastle-under-Lyme 1768–1778 With: Alexander Forrester (1768-1774) George Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton (1774-1778) |
Succeeded by George Leveson-Gower, Viscount Trentham George Waldegrave, Viscount Chewton |
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 5)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 [1] Article by Sir Lewis Namier in History of Parliament Online.
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- ↑ The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973). Page 512
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "C" (part 1)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Stooks Smith, op. cit. page 363
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
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