Education
Hay was educated at Merchant Taylors" School and Street John's College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1909- the year he married Esmay Foster.
Rural Dean Bishop of Buckingham
Hay was educated at Merchant Taylors" School and Street John's College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1909- the year he married Esmay Foster.
After a curacy at Street Pancras and spells as the incumbent at Summerstown, Buckinghamshire and Taplow in the same county he was appointed Rural Dean of Oxford before his ascension to the Episcopate. That same year he retired, although he then served another ten years as an Assistant Bishop within the same diocese.