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Waterloo. Nevertheless the eighth Marquis could not complain of slowness of promotion. He 

 became Colonel in 1825, Major-General in 1837, Lieut.-General in 1846, General in 1854, and 

 in 1876 died Field-Marshal. In 1842 he was selected for employment in India, and was Governor 

 of Madras at the time of the Mutiny up country, which but for his vigour and instant action 

 might have assumed serious proportions. Soon after the conclusion of the war with France he 

 married Lady Susan Montagu, third daughter of the fifth Duke of Manchester, and by her had six 

 sons and eight daughters. 



In pursuance of some settled purpose the Marquis sent Arthur Hay, his second son, who was 

 born 9th November, 1824, after a preliminary course of study with his brothers under the 

 tuition of Dr. Thomson at Yester, to Germany. I have no information respecting the course of his 

 life and studies, first at Leipsig, and subsequently at Geneva, where he was placed in the charge 

 of Dr. Daubigny, author of the ' History of the Reformation,' which has a European if somewhat 

 ultra-Protestant reputation ; but I know that he learned German and French and the art of 

 skating, and that, at Leipsig, he developed the taste for music and operatic performances which 

 the Calvinistic atmosphere of Geneva did not eradicate, and which lasted to the end of his life. 

 When, in 1839, he was summoned from the continent to assist at the wedding of his sister Lady 

 Elizabeth and the present Duke of Wellington, the members of his family were somewhat 

 perplexed by the appearance of the student in long hair and garments of foreign cut who 

 came among them ; but " Arthur " was soon an established favourite with his numerous brothers 

 and sisters. He was then fifteen years of age ; and two years afterwards (30th April, 1841) he 

 entered the Army as Ensign and Lieutenant by purchase in the Grenadier Guards. Arthur Hay 

 was not, however, one of those Guardsmen — exceptional, it must be said — who think they ought 

 to wait till " the Guards " are sent to the field, to learn the active duties of their profession ; and 

 he was delighted when he was appointed to the Stafi" of Lord Hardinge in India, where we were 

 then about to be engaged in the most arduous task Avhich ever tried the skill of our leaders and 

 the mettle of our soldiers. As Aide-de-Camp to the gallant and successful soldier and Governor- 

 General he served through the Sutlej Campaign (1845-46), and was present at the famous battles 

 of Ferozeshuhur and Sobraon, where he won his first military honours. At the termination of the 

 war in 1846 he went up to Simla ; but he did not long remain inactive, for in May of that year he 

 planned an expedition, of which I find the following rough note in his memoranda, showing that his 

 ambition as a traveller went far beyond the general scheme of Simla tourists. It was: — "From 

 Simla go to Fos Radakh, then to the Paeng-Kung lake, and try to go round it, visiting the 

 Tsoral lake ; then try and reach the valley of the Shai-Yak river from the plains of Chau-Tau, 

 and follow up the course of that river to the Nubia-Tslion lake. Go as far as possible on the 

 Yarkund road, and then reach the Yarkund river ; go along the northern base of the Korakoram 



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