Making Hay while the sun shines
EVERY COUNTRY LIFE interview ends with a series of quick-fire questions, one of which is: ‘Who is your hero?’ Andrew Hay—Lord Andrew Hay, we should say, as he’s a son of the 12th Marquess of Tweed-dale—doesn’t hesitate: ‘My father.’ I can see why. Having run away from Eton to join the Merchant Navy in 1938, David Hay, as he then was, had a spectacular career in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, diving into shark-infested waters to rescue a radio operator, helping to police Sierra Leone and escaping from a prisoner-of-war camp to capture a ship and sail back to England.
