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His son, the eleventh Lord, became a British citizen in 1877 and four years later he was created Baron Reay, of Durness in the County of Sutherland, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Lord Reay was later Governor of Bombay , Under-Secretary of State for India in the Liberal administration of Lord Rosebery and Lord Lieutenant of Roxburghshire .
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]
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.
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.
Lord Reay succeeded his father in 1876 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1877. [2] He was created Baron Reay, of Durness in the County of Sutherland, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1881. [3] In 1885 he was appointed Governor of Bombay, [4] a post he held until 1890.
In 1835, he married Erica Catherine Mackay, daughter of Eric Mackay, 7th Lord Reay, and together they had five children, four of whom succeeded to his baronetcy and one, the youngest, who was elevated to an earldom: [3] Eric Townsend-Farquhar (1836–1867) Minto Townsend-Farquhar (1837–1872) John Townsend-Farquhar (1839–1877)
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]
Hugh Mackay was born around 1640, third son of Hugh Mackay of Scourie, a junior branch of Clan Mackay, and his wife Anne.By this time, much of the family estates were mortgaged, [1] a situation compounded by his father's support for the defeated Royalists during the 1642 to 1654 Wars of the Three Kingdoms.