Victorian Vanity Fair Cartoon, ‘a Pennisular veteran’, by Ape, dated Jan 8 1876

Field Marshal George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale KT GCB (1787 – 1876) served as a staff officer in the Peninsular War under Arthur Wellesley and was with him at the Second Battle of Porto. Hay also fought at the Battle of Bussaco and at the Battle of Vitoria. He later served in the War of 1812 against the United States Army, and commanded the 100th Regiment of Foot at the Battle of Chippawa when he was taken prisoner of war. He later become Governor of Madras and, at the same time, Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Army.