Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay

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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.^[1]

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.

Political offices
Preceded by George William Erskine Russell	Under-Secretary of State for India 1894–1895	Succeeded by The Earl of Onslow
Preceded by Sir James Fergusson	Governor of Bombay 1885–1890	Succeeded by Baron Harris
Government offices
Preceded by 6th Marquess of Londonderry	Chairman of the London School Board 1897–1904	Succeeded by LSB Abolished
Honorary titles
Preceded by The Duke of Roxburghe	Lord Lieutenant of Roxburghshire 1892–1918	Succeeded by The Duke of Roxburghe
Academic offices
Preceded by Sir Theodore Martin	Rector of the University of St Andrews 1884 - 1886	Succeeded by Arthur Balfour
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Aeneas Mackay	Lord Reay 1876-1921	Succeeded by Eric Mackay
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Reay 1881–1921	Succeeded by Title Extinct
Dutch nobility
Preceded by Aeneas Mackay	Baron Mackay 1839–1921	Succeeded by Eric Mackay