Kenneth Peter Lyle Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape (born 23 January 1943), known as Peter Inchcape, is a

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, landowner, and business man. He was a member of the

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from 1994 to 1999.

Early life

The elder son of Kenneth Mackay, 3rd Earl of Inchcape and his wife Aline Thorn Pease, he has a younger brother, James Jonathan Thorn Mackay (born 1947), and both were educated at

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. Inchcape was then commissioned into the

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, after training at the

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.'' Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', volume 2, 2003, p. 2030 He is a descendant of

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Career

Inchcape became a director of companies and was chairman of Duncan MacNeill Tea International, Glenapp Estate Company, and Saracen Power Ltd. He was admitted as a member of the

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. On 17 March 1994, he succeeded as

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 ...

and Viscount Glenapp, peerages created in 1929, and as Baron Inchcape (1911) and Viscount Inchcape (1924), all in the

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, giving him a seat in the House of Lords. He was Master of the

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for 1993-1994 and is a member of the

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. He owns the Glenapp estate in

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, centred at Carlock House, near

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, and also has houses in

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and at

Clyffe Pypard Clyffe Pypard is a village and civil parish about south of Royal Wootton Bassett in North Wiltshire, England. The parish includes the large hamlet of Bushton, the small hamlet of The Barton, the former separate village of Bupton, and the shr ...

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. The Sunday Times Rich List 2005 estimated his fortune as £50M and put him at 938th in the list of the richest people in the United Kingdom.

Family

Inchcape married Georgina Nisbet on 7 June 1966, and they have three children: *Lady Elspeth Pease Mackay, born 3 November 1972 *Lady Ailsa Fiona Stonor, born 1 April 1977 (married William Stonor, son and heir of Lord Camoys, 20 March 2004) *Fergus James Kenneth Mackay, Viscount Glenapp, born 9 July 1979 Inchcape is a nephew of 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 ...

. His heir, Viscount Glenapp, is married to Rebecca Jackson of

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, Northamptonshire.

Appointments

* Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, an antiterrorism

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* Deputy chairman of

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* Director of Assam Oil & Natural Gas * Trustee of the charity MapAction

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* 1943 births Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Graduates of the Mons Officer Cadet School Living people People educated at Eton College

Peter Mackay Peter Gordon MacKay (born September 27, 1965) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2015 and has served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General (2013–2015), Minister of National Defence (2007� ...

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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", proba ...