Archibald FitzRoy George Hay, 13th Earl of Kinnoull (20 June 1855 – 7 February 1916), styled Viscount Dupplin from 1886 until 1897, was a Scottish peer and soldier. His titles were Earl of Kinnoull, Viscount Dupplin and Lord Hay of Kinfauns in the Peerage of Scotland; and Baron Hay of Pedwardine in the Peerage of Great Britain.
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Early life
Hay was the third son of George Hay-Drummond, 12th Earl of Kinnoull and Lady Emily Somerset. Among his siblings were George Hay, styled Viscount Dupplin (who married Lady Agnes Duff, a daughter of the 5th Earl Fife), Lady Constance Hay (wife of cricketer Walter Hadow), Capt. Hon. Alistair Hay (who married Hon. Camilla Greville, a daughter of the 2nd Baron Greville), politician Hon. Claude Hay, and Lady Muriel Hay (wife of Prince Alexander Münster, a son of German ambassador to the United Kingdom, Georg Herbert zu Münster).
His paternal grandparents were Thomas Hay-Drummond, 11th Earl of Kinnoull and Louisa Burton Rowley (a daughter of Sir Charles Rowley, 1st Baronet). His maternal grandparents were Henry Somerset, 7th Duke of Beaufort and, his second wife, the former Emily Frances Smith (a daughter of Charles Culling Smith and Lady Anne Smith).
Career
He was commissioned into the Royal Perthshire Militia in 1872 and later joined the Black Watch, with whom he fought in the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War. He was awarded the Ottoman Order of Osmanieh. He served in Egypt as chief of staff to Baker Pasha; he also acted as colonel of the Egyptian Gendarmerie. He retired from the army in 1886, and succeeded to the title on the death of the 12th earl in 1897, his older brothers having died.