Such was the maid who in the bloom of youth,
In virgin innocence, in nature’s pride,
Bless’d with each art that owes its charm to truth,
Sank in her father’s fond embrace — and died.
He weeps! O venerate the holy tear;
Faith lends her aid to bear affliction’s load;
The father mourns his child upon her bier,
The Christian yields an angel to his God.
How soon, alas, their bosoms bleed again!
See Charlotte in the dawn of life expire!
Another daughter lost renews their pain,
Another angel joins the heavenly choir.
With softest smiles of tenderness and love
She late could soothe a father’s manly breast,
And all a mother’s tender softness move;
Then smil’d a fond farewell! and dropp’d to rest.
Escap’d from present ills, from future care,
And many a pang that meets us here below,
She’s called thus early to yon brighter sphere —
With native sweetness smiles a cherub now.
The eldest son became the 9th Earl of Kinnoull, Lord Lyon King-of-Arms of Scotland, and President of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge (born 1751, succeeded 1787, died 1804). The second son, Thomas, died in 1773, aged twenty-one, and, like the third and fourth sons, left no descendants. The fifth son, Edward (of whom hereafter), had many children. The youngest, already noticed, had a son, Robert William, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, who died in 1861, aged seventy-five. Besides editing in 1803 the Archbishop’s Sermons, the Rev. George Auriol Hay Drummond wrote a prefatory memoir, and published in 1802 a volume of “Verses, Social and Domestic.” In the former he tells us that his mother “died in 1773, and her Lord never recovered her loss.”
From Dame Henrietta Auriol or Drummond (as Scotch law would designate her) descended three principal families:—
1st. The Earls of Kinnoull, through her eldest son Robert Auriol, the 9th Earl.
2nd. The inheritors of the estates of Cromlix and Innerpeffray, destined for the second sons of the Earls of Kinnoull, who assume the name, style, and arms of Drummond of Cromlix.
3d. The descendants of the Archbishop’s fourth son, the Rev. Edward Auriol Hay Drummond, D.D. (born 1758, died 1829), Dean of Bocking, Prebendary of York and Southwell, Rector of Hadleigh, and chaplain to the King. By his marriages he extended his connection with the Huguenot Refugees; he married first in 1782 Elizabeth, daughter of William, Count De Vismes (she died in 1790), and secondly, his mother’s cousin Amelia, daughter of James Auriol and aunt of the Rev. Edward Auriol. By his second wife Dean Drummond left two daughters: Amelia Auriol married in 1812 to Rev. George Wilkins, D.D., and Charlotte Auriol, wife of the Rev. Thomas Jones. His daughter, by his first wife, was Henrietta Auriol, who was married in 1831 to the Rev. Morgan Watkins, and died in 1832. The Dean’s only son was a military officer; the Strathallan estates having passed to a younger generation, he returned to the surname of Hay; his name was Edward William Auriol Drummond Hay (born 1785, died 1845); he was Consul-General for Morocco, and left six sons and four daughters — the youngest daughter, Henrietta Auriol Drummond Hay, was married in 1851 to Henry Chandos Pole, Esq. The sons are (1), Sir Edward Hay Drummond Hay, Governor of St. Helena and other colonies from 1839 to 1862 [he died on 24th January 1884, aged sixty-eight]; (2), John Hay Drummond Hay, K.C.B., Her Majesty’s Ambassador at the Court of Morocco; (3), Colonel Thomas Robert Hay Drummond Hay, late in command of the 78th Highlanders; (4), George William Drummond Hay, Esq.; (5), Francis Ringler Drummond Hay, Esq., Consul-General at Tripoli; (6), James De Vismes Drummond Hay, Esq., C.B., Consul at Valparaiso.
Note as to the Wandsworth Huguenot Cemetery
(known as Mount Nod).
The Wandsworth and Battersea District Times has printed much useful information. There is a French epitaph to a refugee lady:—
Ici repose Dame Isabeau Bories de Montauban en Guienne,
espouse de Jean de Comarque, escuyer.
Decedée le vi. Aoust mdccxxxi., la lxiu. année de son age.
