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Earl of Inchcape is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom The Peerage of the United Kingdom is one of the five Peerages in the United Kingdom. It comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union 1800, Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the ...
. It was created in 1929 for the Scottish shipping magnate and public servant James Mackay, 1st Viscount Inchcape. He had been created Baron Inchcape, of
Strathnaver Strathnaver or Strath Naver ( gd, Srath Nabhair) is the fertile strath of the River Naver, a famous salmon river that flows from Loch Naver to the north coast of Scotland. The term has a broader use as the name of an ancient province also kno ...
in the
County of Sutherland Sutherland ( gd, Cataibh) is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the Highlands of Scotland. Its county town is Dornoch. Sutherland borders Caithness and Moray Firth to the east, Ross-shire and Cromartyshire (later ...
, in 1911, and Viscount Inchcape, of Strathnaver in the County of Sutherland, in 1924. He was made Viscount Glenapp, of Strathnaver in the County of Sutherland, at the same time as he was given the earldom. These titles are also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The family seat is Carlock House near
Ballantrae Ballantrae is a community in Carrick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The name probably comes from the Scottish Gaelic ''Baile na Tràgha'', meaning the "town by the beach". Ballantrae has a primary school. The beach consists of shingle and sand an ...
,
Ayrshire Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...
. The former family seat was
Glenapp Castle Glenapp Castle, formerly the family seat of the Earl of Inchcape, is now a luxury hotel and restaurant located about southeast of Ballantrae, South Ayrshire, Scotland.Coventry, Martin (2001). ''The Castles of Scotland''. Musselburgh: Goblinshead ...
, which is now a luxury hotel. It was sold by the Mackay family in 1982, having been acquired by the 1st Earl of Inchcape in 1917. The present Earl of Inchcape, however, still owns the Glenapp Estate.


Earls of Inchcape (1929)

* James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape (1852–1932) *
Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape (25 December 1887 – 21 June 1939) was a barrister, a businessman and an earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He became Earl of Inchcape on 23 May 1932 after the death of his father, James Mackay, 1s ...
(1887–1939) *
Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape (27 December 1917 – 17 March 1994), was a businessman and an earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He became Earl of Inchcape on 21 June 1939 after the death of his father, Kenneth Mackay, ...
(1917–1994) * Kenneth Peter Lyle Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape (b. 1943) The
heir apparent An heir apparent, often shortened to heir, is a person who is first in an order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person; a person who is first in the order of succession but can be displaced by the b ...
is the present holder's only son Fergus James Kenneth Mackay, Viscount Glenapp (b. 1979).
The heir apparent's heir apparent is his son, the Hon. Alexander David James Mackay (b. 2017).


Line of succession

* '' James Lyle Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape (1852–1932)'' ** ''
Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape (25 December 1887 – 21 June 1939) was a barrister, a businessman and an earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He became Earl of Inchcape on 23 May 1932 after the death of his father, James Mackay, 1s ...
(1887–1939)'' *** ''
Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape (27 December 1917 – 17 March 1994), was a businessman and an earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He became Earl of Inchcape on 21 June 1939 after the death of his father, Kenneth Mackay, ...
(1917–1994)'' **** Kenneth Peter Lyle Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape (born 1943) ***** (1) Fergus James Kenneth Mackay, ''Viscount Glenapp'' (b. 1979) ****** (2) ''Hon.'' Alexander David James Mackay (b. 2017) **** (3) ''Hon.'' James Jonathan Thorn Mackay (b. 1947) ***** (4) Aidan James Turner Mackay (b. 1978) **** (5) ''Hon.'' Shane Mackay (b. 1973) **** (6) ''Hon.'' Ivan Cholmeley Mackay (b. 1976) *** (7) Simon Brooke Mackay, Baron Tanlaw (born 1934) **** (8) ''Hon.'' James Brooke Mackay (b. 1961) **** (9) ''Hon.'' Brooke Brooke Mackay (b. 1982)


See also

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Inchcape Inchcape or the Bell Rock is a reef about off the east coast of Angus, Scotland, near Dundee and Fife, occupied by the Bell Rock Lighthouse. The name ''Inchcape'' comes from the Scottish Gaelic ''Innis Sgeap'', meaning "Beehive isle", probab ...
*
Inchcape plc Inchcape plc is a British multinational automotive distribution, retail and services company headquartered in London. An outgrowth of Calcutta-based Mackinnon Mackenzie Company, Inchcape has operations in 32 countries across Asia, Australia, ...


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Inchcape Earldoms in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Noble titles created in 1929