Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay and 1st Baron Reay KT, GCSI, GCIE, PC, DL, JP was a Scottish peer and politician. He was born in The Hague in 1839, the son of Aeneas Mackay, 10th Lord Reay (a Dutch government minister) and Maria Catherine Anne Jacoba, daughter of Baron Fagel. He succeeded his father in 1876 and was naturalised as a British citizen in 1877. He married Fanny Georgiana Jane Hasler the same year.

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  • Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay and 1st Baron Reay KT, GCSI, GCIE, PC, DL, JP was a Scottish peer and politician. He was born in The Hague in 1839, the son of Aeneas Mackay, 10th Lord Reay (a Dutch government minister) and Maria Catherine Anne Jacoba, daughter of Baron Fagel. He succeeded his father in 1876 and was naturalised as a British citizen in 1877. He married Fanny Georgiana Jane Hasler the same year. He was created Baron Reay, of Durness in the County of Sutherland, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, in 1881 He served as Rector of St Andrews University from 1884-1886, Governor of Bombay from 1885-1890, Under-Secretary of State for India in 1894-1895, Chairman of the London School Board from 1897-1904, President of the Royal Asiatic Society and University College, London, and as first President of the British Academy from 1901-1907. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Roxburghshire from 1892-1918. He served as President of the first day of the 1882 Co-operative Congress. He was a British delegate at the Second Peace Conference which led to the signing of the Hague Convention 1907. Other British delegates included Ernest Satow and Eyre Crowe. He was succeeded to the Scottish titles by his cousin Baron Eric Mackay. The 1881 creation of Baron Reay became extinct. He was appointed a GCIE in 1887, a GCSI in 1890, a Privy Counsellor in 1905, and a Knight of the Thistle in 1911.
  • Mr. Donald Jacob baron Mackay, 11e Lord Reay, 1e baron Reay (sinds 1881), heer van Ophemert en Zennewijnen, was een Nederlands en Brits politicus. Mackay was een liberaal Kamerlid uit Tiel van antirevolutionaire huize. Hij behoorde tot de ethische richting in de Hervormde kerk, maar was overtuigd liberaal. Hij vertrok na zijn huwelijk naar Londen en werd als Schotse pair (Lord Reay) lid van het Britse Hogerhuis. Later werd hij Gouverneur van Bombay en onderminister voor Brits-Indië. Hij was de zoon van Æneas Mackay sr. en de neef van Æneas Mackay jr. en Theodoor Philip Mackay.
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  • Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay and 1st Baron Reay KT, GCSI, GCIE, PC, DL, JP was a Scottish peer and politician. He was born in The Hague in 1839, the son of Aeneas Mackay, 10th Lord Reay (a Dutch government minister) and Maria Catherine Anne Jacoba, daughter of Baron Fagel. He succeeded his father in 1876 and was naturalised as a British citizen in 1877. He married Fanny Georgiana Jane Hasler the same year.
  • Mr. Donald Jacob baron Mackay, 11e Lord Reay, 1e baron Reay (sinds 1881), heer van Ophemert en Zennewijnen, was een Nederlands en Brits politicus. Mackay was een liberaal Kamerlid uit Tiel van antirevolutionaire huize. Hij behoorde tot de ethische richting in de Hervormde kerk, maar was overtuigd liberaal. Hij vertrok na zijn huwelijk naar Londen en werd als Schotse pair (Lord Reay) lid van het Britse Hogerhuis. Later werd hij Gouverneur van Bombay en onderminister voor Brits-Indië.
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  • Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay
  • Donald Jacob Mackay
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