Aeneas Mackay, 15th Lord Reay

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The Right Honourable

The Lord Reay
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Member of the House of Lords
Excepted Hereditary
Assumed office
23 January 2019
Preceded byLord Skelmersdale
Personal details
Born
Aeneas Simon Mackay

(1965-03-20) 20 March 1965 (age 56)
Political partyConservative
EducationWestminster School
Alma materBrown University
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Aeneas Simon Mackay, 15th Lord Reay (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.[citation needed] In the Netherlands he is Lord of Ophemert and Zennewijnen, with castle Ophemert.

Life[]

Educated at Westminster School and Brown University, Lord Reay was a founding partner of the corporate finance firm Montrose Partners.[1]

Lord Reay was admitted to the House of Lords in January 2019, after winning a hereditary peers' by-election.[2][3] He sits as a Conservative member of the House.

Family[]

The then Master of Reay married to Mia, from Finland, elder daughter of Markus Ruulio, in 2010.[4] Lord and Lady Reay live in Chelsea SW3 and Whittington Hall, and have three children:[5]

  • Alexander Mackay (b. 2010), styled Master of Reay;[6]
  • The Hon Iona Mackay (b. 2011);
  • The Hon Harry Mackay (b. 2014).[7]

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Further reading[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Clan Chiefs". Clan Mackay Society. 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Hereditary peers' by-election, January 2019: result" (PDF). House of Lords. 23 January 2019.
  3. ^ Bloom, Dan (23 January 2019). "Man wins seat for life in Parliament thanks to his ancestor becoming a Lord in 1628". Mirror. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  4. ^ "The Master of Reay and Miss M.J. Ruulio - Engagements". Telegraph announcements. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  5. ^ Debrett's The Peerage 2019. p. 992.
  6. ^ "Rose Adkins and George Hulse's wedding". Tatler. Condé Nast Britain. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Reay, Lord (S, 1628)". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 9 January 2020.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Lord Skelmersdale 		Elected hereditary peer to the House of Lords
under of the House of Lords Act 1999
2019–present 		Incumbent
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Hugh Mackay 		Lord Reay
2013–present 		Incumbent
Dutch nobility
Preceded by
Hugh Mackay 		Baron Mackay
van Ophemert and Zennewijnen
2013–present 		Incumbent
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