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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]
The 8th Pennsylvania Regiment or Mackay's Battalion was an American infantry unit that became part of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Authorized for frontier defense in July 1776, the eight-company unit was originally called Mackay's Battalion after its commander, Colonel Aeneas Mackay.
Clan Mackay (/ m ə ˈ k aɪ / mə-KY; Scottish Gaelic: Clann Mhic Aoidh [ˈkʰl̪ˠãũn̪ˠ vĩçˈkʲɤj]) is an ancient and once-powerful Highland Scottish clan from the far north of the Scottish Highlands, but with roots in the old Kingdom of Moray.
Aeneas Simon Mackay, 15th Lord Reay: b.1965 Succeed father as Clan Chief 2013 to current Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay: b. 1937 d. 2013 Also Baron Mackay van Ophemert and Zennewijnen, of the Netherlands. Also Baronet of Strathnaver [2] Aeneas Alexander Mackay, 13th Lord Reay d. 1967 Eric Mackay, 12th Lord Reay d. 1921 Donald Mackay, 11th Lord ...
He was the son of Barthold John Christian Mackay (who had been created Baron Mackay of Ophemert and Zennewijnen in the Netherlands in 1822), great-grandson of Hon. Aeneas Mackay, a Brigadier-General in the Dutch army and the second son of the second Lord. Lord Reay was a Dutch citizen and served as a government minister in the Netherlands.
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.
Two years later, after the right won a parliamentary majority in the 1888 general election, Mackay was appointed as formateur, tasked with composing a cabinet. On 20 April, Mackay became Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In his own cabinet, he served as Minister of the Interior. The school struggle was the most important issue for the ...
Mackay's major work was The Practice of the Court of Session (2 vols. 1877–9), which became a standard authority. He was the author of the articles on "equity" in both Green's Encyclopædia of the Law of Scotland (Volume V, 1897) and the Encyclopædia of the Laws of Scotland (Volume VI, 1928).