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

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from 1994 to 1999.

Early life

The elder son of

Kenneth 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 ...

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 9th/12th Royal Lancers, after training at the

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.'' Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', volume 2, 2003, p. 2030 His sister was Lady Lucinda Louise Mackay, 13 December 1941 – 25 November 2024 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 Royal Company of Archers. On 17 March 1994, he succeeded as Earl of Inchcape 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 Worshipful Company of Grocers for 1993-1994 and is a member of the Oriental Club. He owns the Glenapp estate in Scotland, centred at Carlock House, near Ballantrae,

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, and also has houses in London and at Clyffe Pypard,

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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 *Ailsa Fiona Stonor, Baroness Camoys, born 1 April 1977 (married William Stonor, 8th Baron 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. His heir, Viscount Glenapp, is married to Rebecca Jackson of Cottisford, Northamptonshire.

Appointments

* Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Foundation, an antiterrorism

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* Deputy chairman of Austin Motors * Director of Assam Oil & Natural Gas * Trustee of the charity MapAction

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* 1943 births People from Ballantrae Nobility from South Ayrshire 4 Graduates of the Mons Officer Cadet School 9th/12th Royal Lancers officers Living people People educated at Eton College

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Peter Mackay

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", probabl ...

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