Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale

Arthur Hay, 9th Marquess of Tweeddale ( born November 9, 1824 in Gifford, East Lothian, Scotland, † December 29, 1878 in Chislehurst, London, England) was a Scottish officer and ornithologist.

Life and work

Tweeddale was known before 1862 as Lord Arthur Hay and 1862-1876 as Viscount Walden. When his father died in October 1876, he inherited the title Marquess. After his school days in Leipzig and Geneva Tweeddale served for a time in the Grenadier Guards in India, where he was promoted to lieutenant, in 1846 captain to lieutenant colonel in 1854 and 1860 to the Colonel 1841. In 1846 he fought in the First Sikh War. In February 1857 he married Helena Eleanora Charlotte Augusta Kielmansegge, who died in 1871. In his second marriage he was married to Julia Marchioness of Tweeddale ( 1846-1937 ). In 1866 he was treated as an officer of the 17th Lancers cavalry regiment.

On January 16, 1868 Tweeddale was elected president of the Zoological Society of London. His ornithological records were published posthumously in 1881 by his nephew Robert George Wardlaw Ramsay ( 1852-1921 ).

Tweeddale (referred to in taxonomic collections as Walden ) had a large private collection of birds, insects, reptiles and mammals. He engaged the naturalist Carl Alfred Bock, the animals collected in the Malay Archipelago. Among them were 40 species that were described for the first time of Tweeddale.

Dedikationsnamen

After Tweeddale including the Mayottedrongo ( Dicrurus waldenii ), the Yünnansibia ( Actinodura waldeni ) and the Panayhornvogel ( Aceros waldeni ) are named. Richard Bowdler Sharpe addition, dedicated to him in 1877 a subspecies of Türkisfeenvogels ( Irena puella tweeddalei ) and Richard Crittenden McGregor 1908 a subspecies of rust head Reed Steiger ( Megalurus timoriensis tweeddalei ).