A MEMOIR OF
SIR JOHN HAY DRUMMOND HAY
Oxford
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
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J. H. Drummond Hay
A MEMOIR OF
SIR JOHN DRUMMOND HAY
P.C. K.C.B. G.C.M.G.
SOMETIME MINISTER ATTHE COURT OF MOROCCO BASED ON HIS JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE
WITH APREFACE BY
SIR FRANCIS W. DE WINTON K.C.M.G.
PORTRAITS & ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY ALBEMARLE STREET
1896
[v]PREFACE
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On his retirement from public service in1886, Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, at the instance of many friends,undertook to set down the recollections of his life. Some of thesenotes were published in Murray’s Magazine in 1887 underthe title of ‘Scraps from my Note-book’; others were laid by to beincorporated in a complete volume. The work was, however,interrupted by an accident to one of his eyes which rendered itimpossible for him to write. For a time he confined himself todictating to my sister, who acted as his amanuensis, quaint storiesand detached incidents connected with the Moors, intending toresume the continuous tale of his life when his sight grewstronger. But, shortly after the recovery of his eyesight, andbefore he had proceeded much further in ‘unwinding the skein of hismemories,’ he was prostrated by a severe illness, followed byinfluenza, of which he died in 1893.
It has fallen therefore to my sister, Miss Drummond Hay, andmyself, his two daughters, to endeavour to unite, to the best ofour ability, these scattered notes and memoranda, and to add tothem such details as[vi]could be supplied from our own recollections. In this task we havebeen naturally somewhat restricted. In the first place, we havebeen obliged to omit from the memoirs of one who lived and died sorecently much that might have been published twenty years hence. Inthe second place, as we have been necessarily debarred from usingany official documents except those published in the Blue Books,our work can scarcely do full justice to the life of a publicservant. These restrictions have not lightened our task; and, hadit not been for the kindly help and advice of friends, we shouldhave had still greater difficulty in tracing, from my father’snotes and private correspondence, the course of his lifelonglabours in Morocco.
The main portion of Sir John’s letters are addressed to hismother—to whom he was a devoted son—and, later, to his eldestsister, Mrs. Norderling, who was during her lifetime thesympathetic and intelligent sharer of his confidences. Except withhis mother and sister he carried on but l