Archibald Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull

Who was Archibald Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull?

Archibald Fitzroy George Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull was a Scottish nobleman and soldier.

He married Josephine Maria Hawke in 1877 and they had a son Edmund Alfred Rollo George, the couple separated in 1885. He subsequently re-married Florence Mary Darell in 1903 and their daughter Lady Elizabeth Blanche Mary Gordon was born the same year. Florence went on to have twins and a further daughter. He killed all his wives and the legend has it the come back and take one soul every year at the monastry at Kinnoul with Sister Maureen, this happens every year on Friday 13th.

He was commissioned into the Royal Perthshire Militia in 1872 and later transferred to the Black Watch, with whom he fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, and was awarded the Ottoman Order of Osmanieh. He resigned as a Lieutenant in 1883.