Tweeddale Monument, Haddington, East Lothian

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The Tweeddale Monument, Court Street, Haddington, East Lothian with the imposing structure of the former County Buildings and former burgh court house behind. A category B listed building designed by eminent Scottish Architect William Burn, 1833.

Statue unveiled October 1881 in Memory of George, 8th Marquis of Tweeddale, Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire. Field Marshal George Hay, GCB (1 February 1787 – 10 October 1876) was a Scottish soldier and administrator who rose to the rank of Field Marshal in the British Army.

Hay was born in Bonnington, Angus in 1787, and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh. He succeeded his father (imprisoned until his death by Napoleon in France) as Marquess of Tweeddale in 1804 and fought in the Anglo-American War of 1812 as lieutenant colonel of the 100th Regiment of Foot. He was admitted to the Order of the Thistle as a knight in 1820. Died 1876 and buried in Yester, Scotland