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Lord Reay, of Reay in the County of Caithness, is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Lord Reay (pronounced "ray") is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Mackay , [ 1 ] whose lands in Strathnaver and northwest Sutherland were known as the Reay Country .
Aeneas Simon Mackay, 15th Lord Reay, Baron Mackay (pronounced "Ray"; born 20 March 1965) is a British corporate financier who is also hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Mackay. He is a Scottish lord and baronet. [2] [3] He is also a Dutch nobleman who is Baron Mackay van Ophemert and Zennewijnen, of Castle Ophemert . [4] [5]
He died in 1876. His son, Donald James Mackay, succeeded as 11th Lord Reay, left Holland and was made a Peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Reay of Durness (8 October 1881) with a seat in the House of Lords. He was appointed Governor of Bombay (1885–90) and Under-Secretary of State for India (1894–95) and was Lord Lieutenant of Roxburghshire.
Hugh William Mackay, 14th Lord Reay, Baron Mackay (19 July 1937 – 10 May 2013), was a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.He was the only male Lord of Parliament to sit in the House of Lords following the abolition of the automatic right of all British hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords in 1999, the only female being The Lady Saltoun.
Aeneas Mackay, 10th Lord Reay d. 1876 Eric Mackay, 9th Lord Reay d. 1875 Title afterwards passed to the Dutch branch of the Mackays Alexander Mackay, 8th Lord Reay d. 1863 Married Marrion Gall Eric Mackay, 7th Lord Reay d. 1847 Grandson of George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay. Succeeded by his brother Hugh Mackay, 6th Lord Reay d. 1797 Succeeded by his ...
In March 1627 Sir Donald Mackay was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia, [4] and in 1628 was elevated in the peerage as Lord Reay. [4] In 1630, Donald Mackay, 1st Lord Reay accompanied his regiment to Germany, and was present at the capture of Stettin and Colberg. [5] The following year in 1631, Lord Reay was empowered by Charles I of England to ...
George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay (1678–1748), was a Scottish noble and chief of the Clan Mackay, a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands.During his life the Glorious Revolution took place which directly affected his family and estate, and during his chiefdom he served the British-Hanoverian Government during the Jacobite rising of 1715 and the Jacobite rising of 1745.
After being demobilized following the end of hostilities in 1763, Rob Donn entered the service of Donald Mackay, 4th Lord Reay as a cattleman. Rob Donn, however, considered threshing the corn to feed the cattle he tended as beneath his dignity and employed a substitute to do the threshing in his place.