Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay

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Hugh William Mackay, 14th Lord Reay (born 19 July 1937) is British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Lord Reay is the only son of Aeneas Alexander Mackay, 13th Lord Reay and succeeded to become Lord Reay upon his fathers death in 1963. Lord Reay has sat as a Member of the European Parliament as a member of the British delegation selected by Parliament for the period 1973 until the first elections in 1979.

Lord Reay was subsequently appointed as a House of Lords whip in 1989 by Margaret Thatcher. In 1991, he was moved by her successor, John Major, to the Department of Trade and Industry as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, but he left the government at the 1992 general election.

With the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999, Lord Reay along with almost all other hereditary peers lost his automatic right to sit in the House of Lords. He was however elected as one of the 90 elected hereditary peers to remain in the House of Lords pending completion of House of Lords reform.