Henry Maurice Drummond-Hay
Henry Maurice Drummond -Hay (* June 7, 1814 Megginch Castle, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, † January 3, 1896 ) was a Scottish ornithologist and ichthyologist.
Family
He was the youngest son of Vice - Admiral Sir Adam Drummond, KCB, of Megginch Castle, Perthshire and Charlotte Murray, daughter of John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl.
On October 12, 1859, he married Elizabeth in Perth Charlotte Richardson -Hay (* 1834, † April 27, 1914 ) from the home Seggieden and Aberage and led from now on the name of Drummond - Hay. They had six children:
- Constance Margaret Jane (March 15, 1862 - February 4, 1944 )
- James Adam Gordon (August 5, 1863 - December 27, 1928 )
- Alice Charlotte (May 6, 1865 - January 23, 1956 )
- Lucy Barbara (August 31, 1866-1954 )
- Henry Maurice (October 22, 1869 - November 2, 1932 )
- Edith Maud (28 February 1872 - February 20, 1960 )
Military career
In June 1832 he was appointed to the 42nd Royal Highlanders, a Scottish infantry regiment and served during his twenty years of service in Ireland, Malta, Corfu, Bermuda and Halifax in Nova Scotia. On December 4, 1833, he was appointed Ensign, promoted Lieutenant on 15 December 1838 and when he retired from military service in 1852 he was already captain and was appointed on 8 June 1854 Major. A short time later he moved to the Perthshire Rifles and led as a lieutenant colonel, the regiment during the Crimean War. 1872 was Colonel Henry Maurice Drummond -Hay finally retire.
Life and work
Even in youth interested in Henry Maurice Drummond for the field research. After studying modern languages , he went to Switzerland and learned in the workshop of Max H. Linder, at that time the most important authority in the field of ornithology in the Alpine region, the taxidermy. During his military service, he studied the birds and fish in the countries he was stationed and was in correspondence with the ornithologist William Jardine and Hugh Edwin Strickland. 1835 Drummond wants to have discovered the first olive Warbler ( Hippolais olivetorum ), the Strickland described two years later.
When Drummond was stationed in Malta, he also devoted himself to the Ichthyology and produced in collaboration with Antonio Schembri numerous colored drawings of fish at. In 1843 he accompanied during his vacation Thomas Graves, Captain of the ship HMS Meteor, on the trip from Malta to Crete. From April 27 to June 18, 1843, he studied the bird life and published his findings in the article Two Months in the Iceland of Crete. Later his company was in the Bahamas and eventually stationed in Halifax. On the drive back to Scotland in December 1852, he saw from the ship a great auk and later claimed he would have been the last, which would have seen a live specimen.
Drummond was the first president of the British Ornithologists ' Union and in 1858 one of the twenty founders of the journal Ibis. In the last twenty years he devoted himself to the natural history of Perthshire and Tayside and especially the establishment of the Perth Museum.