Mary Hay

(b. July 24, 1754, Callendar House, Falkirk, Stirlingshire – d. 0000, Scotland )

Gender: F

Mary Hay was the daughter of the 15th Earl of Erroll, and married General John Scott in 1770, when he was forty-five and she was sixteen. He divorced her a year later after she ran off with Captain James Sutherland.

Also known as:

Lady Hay
Mary Scott (née Hay)
Mary Sutherland (née Hay)

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