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Alice Emily Drummond-Hay

1851–1940

Best remembered for helping preserve her father’s story, she co-edited a lively 1896 memoir of the British diplomat Sir John Drummond Hay. Archival records also show a long paper trail of correspondence, family history work, and translations.

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A memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P.C., K.C.B., G.C.M.G., sometime minister at the court of Morrocco

A memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P.C., K.C.B., G.C.M.G., sometime minister at the court of Morrocco

by Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay Brooks, Alice Emily Drummond-Hay

About the author

Alice Emily Drummond-Hay (1851–1940) was a British writer and editor from the Drummond-Hay family. She is chiefly associated with A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, published in 1896, which she prepared with her sister Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay Brooks from their father’s journals and correspondence.

Library and bookselling records consistently link her to that memoir, and archival descriptions suggest she remained active in literary and family-history work well beyond the book itself. The Bodleian Libraries list papers by her dating from 1866 to 1938, including correspondence, a history of the Drummond-Hay family, and translations of a novel.

She died in 1940. Although a full modern biographical sketch is hard to confirm from easily available sources, the surviving records present her as a careful preserver of family papers and a collaborator in turning private documents into published history.