| rdfs:comment | - Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay and 1st Baron Reay (in the Netherlands: Donald Jacob, Baron Mackay, Lord of Ophemert and Zennewijnen) KT, GCSI, GCIE, PC, DL, JP (22 December 1839-1 August 1921) 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 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.
- Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay from 1876 (22 December 1839 – 1 August 1921) was a Dutch-born British administrator and Liberal Party politician. Naturalised as a British citizen in 1877, Reay had a long association with University College London (UCL): he was elected to the college's council in 1881, and was a founding member and president of the Association for the Promotion for a Teaching University in London formed in 1884. He held the post of Governor of Bombay from 1885-1890. Returning to England, he was Under Secretary of State for India in the cabinet of Lord Rosebery.
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| abstract | - Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay and 1st Baron Reay (in the Netherlands: Donald Jacob, Baron Mackay, Lord of Ophemert and Zennewijnen) KT, GCSI, GCIE, PC, DL, JP (22 December 1839-1 August 1921) 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.
- Donald James Mackay, 11th Lord Reay from 1876 (22 December 1839 – 1 August 1921) was a Dutch-born British administrator and Liberal Party politician. Naturalised as a British citizen in 1877, Reay had a long association with University College London (UCL): he was elected to the college's council in 1881, and was a founding member and president of the Association for the Promotion for a Teaching University in London formed in 1884. He held the post of Governor of Bombay from 1885-1890. Returning to England, he was Under Secretary of State for India in the cabinet of Lord Rosebery. In 1892 Reay became Vice President of UCL, and president in 1897, a post he held until his death. He was the last chairman of the London School Board, holding office from 2 December 1897 until 30 April 1904, when the board's activities passed to the London County Council.
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