Alice Emily Drummond-Hay

Alice Emily Drummond-Hay was a British writer born in 1851 and died in 1940. Surviving library and archival records show that she is chiefly associated with A Memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, published in 1896, a book she prepared with her sister Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay Brooks.

That memoir was built from Sir John Drummond Hay's journals and correspondence, and contemporary catalog records note that the sisters edited his notes and memoranda for publication. The result places her less as a novelist in the usual sense and more as a careful literary editor and family historian, helping preserve the life of a major British diplomat connected with Morocco.

Archival descriptions at the Bodleian Libraries also suggest a wider range of personal work, mentioning her correspondence, a history of the Drummond-Hay family, and translations of a novel among her papers. No clearly suitable portrait could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so a profile image has been left blank.