Donald James Mackay Bt. (1839 - 1921)

Born 22 Dec 1839 in Ophemert, Gelderland, Nederland

Ancestors

Husband of Fanny Georgina Jane (Hasler) Mackay — married 5 Jun 1877 in St. George's, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

Died 1 Aug 1921 at age 81 in Earlston, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom [uncertain]

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Biography

Donald was born, likely on the family estates at Ophemert, on 22 December 1839,^[1] the eldest son to Æneas Mackay, Baron Ophemert and Lord Reay and his wife Mary Catherine Anna Jacoba Fagel, daughter of Baron James Fagel.^[1]

Citizenship

He became a naturalised British citizen, by Act of Parliament, on 17 May 1877,^[1]

Titles and Positions

• created Baron Reay of Durness, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, 8 October 1881^[1]
• a Baronet of Nova Scotia^[1]
• a Privy Councillor^[1]
• Lord-Lieutenant of Roxburghshire
• a D.L. of Berwick and Selkirk^[1]
• an LL.D. of the four Scottish Universities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews, and Aberdeen)^[1]
• D.Litt. of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge^[1]
• a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (G. C. I. E.) ^[1]
• a Knight Grand Commander of Order of the Star of India (G.C.S.I.).^[1]
• He was 11th Lord Reay, succeeding his father.^[1]
• Rector of St. Andrews University 1884^[1]
• Governor of Bombay 1885-90^[1]
• Under-Secretary of State for India 1894-95^[1]
• Chairman of London School Board 1897^[1]
• first President of the British Academy.^[1]
• plenipotentiary delegate to the Second Peace Conference at the Hague in 1907^[1]
• Chairman of a Committee on Agricultural Education in England, and of a Committee on Oriental Studies^[1]
• President of the Royal Asiatic Society and of the Franco-Scottish Society, and Ex-President of the Institute of International Law^[1]

Marriage

He married, 5 June 1877, shortly after his Naturalisation, Fanny Georgina Jane Hasler, daughter of the late Richard Hasler, Esq. of Aldingbourne, Sussex, and widow of Captain Alexander Mitchell, of Stow, M.P..^[1]

They had no children.

He died in August 1921, aged 81. On his death the barony of 1881 became extinct while he was succeeded in the Scottish title by his cousin Eric baron Mackay (1870-1921) who was succeeded only three months later by his son Sir Aeneas Alexander baron Mackay (1905-1963), 13th Lord Reay, member of the House of Lords (1955-1959).^[2]

Research Notes

• His middle name is recorded in the Netherlands as Jacob.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20} Balfour Paul; The Scots Peerage; (Douglas; Edinburgh, 1904-1914); Vol 7, pgs 178-179
2. ↑ The Complete Peerage by G. E. Cockayne, edited by H. Arthur Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, and Lord Howard de Walden, vol.x, London, 1945, p.758-9.

• Donald Jacob Mackay
• Burke's Landed Gentry edited by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, 18th edition, vol. 3, London, 1972, p.487.

See Also

• 11th Lord Reay Wikipedia Article
• Lord Reay Title
• Papers of Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay Archive portal