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]
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.
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Note on the biography. There are no "barons" Mackay. The original creation (20 June 1628) was Lord Reay, a Lord of Parliament. The only Barons in Scotland are feudal barons or United Kingdom Barons.
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Note the barony of Durness was granted under the United Kingdom in 1881, and that he was also a baron in the Netherlands.