Aeneas Mackay, 15th Lord Reay explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Reay
Office1:Member of the House of Lords
Status1:Lord Temporal
Term Label1:as an elected hereditary peer
Term Start1:28 January 2019
1Blankname1:By-election
1Namedata1:28 January 2019
Predecessor1:The 7th Baron Skelmersdale
Birth Name:Aeneas Simon Mackay
Birth Date:20 March 1965
Party:Conservative
Education:Westminster School
Alma Mater:Brown University

Aeneas Simon Mackay[1] , 15th Lord Reay, Baron Mackay (pronounced "Ray"; born 20 March 1965), a Scottish lord and Dutch nobleman, is a British corporate financier who is also hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Mackay. [2] In the Netherlands he is Lord of Ophemert and Zennewijnen, with castle Ophemert.[3] [4]

Life

Educated at Westminster School and Brown University, Lord Reay was a founding partner of the corporate finance firm Montrose Partners.[5]

Lord Reay was admitted to the House of Lords in January 2019, after winning a hereditary peers' by-election.[6] [7] He sits as a Conservative member of the House, and is a member of Lloyd's.[8]

In 2023 the Clan Mackay inaugurated Aeneas Mackay as their chief at a ceremony at the Farr Stone, in north Sutherland, and in the presence of representatives from Clan-Mackay societies from Canada, the U.S.A, Germany and Scotland. The ceremony involved a religious blessing; readings of poetry and ancient documents; a recitation of the chief’s lineage; and the presentation to the chief of a dirk, staff and seal. The chief's seanchaidh lead the ceremony, which included the participation of the Lord-Lieutenant of Sutherland and the High Chief of Clan Donald.[9]

Family

The then Master of Reay married to Mia Ruulio from Finland, elder daughter of Markus Ruulio, in 2010.[10] Lord and Lady Reay live in Chelsea SW3 and Whittington Hall, and have three children:[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Official Roll . 2023-10-02 . The Standing Council of the Baronetage . en.
  2. Web site: 2023-09-14 . Lord Reay inaugurated as 29th Chief of Clan Mackay at ceremony in Sutherland The Scottish Banner . 2023-10-02 . en-GB.
  3. Web site: 2013-05-20 . Lord Reay . 2023-10-02 . The Herald . en.
  4. Web site: Reay, 15th Lord, (Aeneas Simon Mackay) (born 20 March 1965) . 2023-10-02 . WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO . en . 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U32043 .
  5. Web site: Clan Chiefs . Clan Mackay Society . 2018 . 9 January 2020 . 5 August 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200805021233/https://www.clanmackaysociety.org/clan-chiefs . dead .
  6. Web site: Hereditary peers' by-election, January 2019: result. House of Lords. 23 January 2019.
  7. News: Bloom . Dan . 23 January 2019 . Man wins seat for life in Parliament thanks to his ancestor becoming a Lord in 1628 . Mirror . 9 January 2020.
  8. Web site: 2 October 2023 . Registered Interests, U.K. House of Lords . 2 October 2023 . U.K. Parliament.
  9. Web site: McMorran . Caroline . 2023-08-19 . 'Rain and wind hold up, but fail to dampen, historic inauguration at Strathnaver Museum of chief of the Clan Mackay.' . 2023-10-02 . Northern Times . en.
  10. News: The Master of Reay and Miss M.J. Ruulio - Engagements . Telegraph announcements . 9 January 2020.
  11. Debrett's The Peerage 2019. p. 992.
  12. Web site: Rose Adkins and George Hulse's wedding . 27 July 2017 . Tatler . Condé Nast Britain . 9 January 2020.
  13. Web site: Reay, Lord (S, 1628) . Cracroft's Peerage . 9 January 2020.