Kenneth James William Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape (27 December 1917 – 17 March 1994), was a businessman and an

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in the

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. He became

Earl of Inchcape Earl of Inchcape is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. 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 in the County ...

on 21 June 1939 after the death of his father, Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape. During the

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, he gained the rank of

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with the

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and

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with the 27th Lancers.

Education

Inchcape attended

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, and

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Appointments

*Director (1957-1983), Chairman (1973-1983), and Chief Executive (1978-1981) of P&O *Chairman and Chief Executive of Inchcape & Company Limited (1958-1982) *Chairman of the Committee for Middle East Trade OMET(1963-1965) *President of the

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(1970-1976) *President of the General Council of British Shipping (1976-1977) *Director of

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*Director of Standard and Chartered Banking Group Limited *Director of The Chartered Bank *Director of British Petroleum *Director of Guardian Royal Exchange

Family

Inchcape was the son of Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape, and his first wife

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, daughter of

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, Lord Justice of the

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. His half-brother on his father's side was the

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Simon Mackay, Baron Tanlaw Simon Brooke Mackay, Baron Tanlaw (born 30 March 1934) is a former member of the House of Lords. Family and business interests Tanlaw is the fourth son of Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape. His mother, the 2nd Earl's second wife, was Leono ...

. Between 12 February 1941 and their divorce in 1954, Lord Inchcape was married to

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, widow of an R.A.F. officer, and daughter of

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and Jeanette Thorn Kissel. They had three children – * Lucinda Louise Mackay, born 13 December 1941 *

Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape Kenneth Peter Lyle Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape (born 23 January 1943), known as Peter Inchcape, is a British peer, landowner, and business man. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1994 to 1999. Early life The elder son of Kenneth Mackay, ...

, born 23 January 1943 *James Jonathan Thorn Mackay, born 28 May 1947. On 3 February 1965 he married Caroline Harrison, daughter of Cholmeley Dering Cholmeley-Harrison and Barbara Mary Corisande Bellew, with whom he had three sons (two by birth and one by adoption) * Anthony Mackay (b.1967) * Shane Mackay (b.1973) * Ivan Mackay (b.1976), owner of the Brux estate, Aberdeenshire. In 1969, Countess Inchcape became

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's first female

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References

3rd Earl of Inchcape at thepeerage.com
*''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'' (107th edition, 2003) volume 2, page 2031

''The Independent''

''NYT''

External links

* *http://www.jta.org/1964/07/31/archive/british-trade-council-for-middle-east-says-it-accedes-to-arab-boycott
Britain and the Middle East: Economic History, 1945-87 p187 by Frank BrenchleyThe Comet Trade Mission to Syria and Iran by Sir Edwin Chapman Andrews
1917 births People educated at Eton College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom BP people 1994 deaths 27th Lancers officers {{UK-earl-stub