Sir Samuel Hayes, 1st Baronet
Sir Samuel Hayes, 1st Baronet (1737–1807) of Drumboe Castle, County Donegal was a Baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland[1] and Member of Parliament for Augher in the Irish House of Commons between 1783 and 1790.
Family[edit]
Hayes’s father Charles Hayes of Bridgwater, Somerset, who married Deborah Holditch of Totnes, Devon, was vice-consul in Lisbon.
Samuel worked as a London surgeon and then married Mary Basil, only heiress of valuable estate of Drumboe in the north of Ireland. She was daughter of William Basil (previously Ball[2]) of Wilton Park, Buckinghamshire and Drumboe Castle. The children from this marriage included:
- Sir Samuel Hayes, 2nd Baronet
- Mary Hayes, married Revd. Andrew Thomas Hamilton, brother of Sir John Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Woodbrook
- Frances Hayes, married John Boyd of Ballymacool, County Donegal
Career[edit]
He represented Augher in the Irish House of Commons between 1783 and 1790. He was Governor of County Donegal between 1781 and 1807.
References[edit]
- ^ The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England. Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994
- ^ Deed Poll Office: Private Act of Parliament 1724 (11 Geo. 1). c. 2