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, 1st Earl of Inchcape. During World War I he served with the 12th Royal Lancers and Machine Gun Corps as a Lieutenant.

Education

Inchcape attended Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted to the Inner Temple Bar as a barrister-at-law in 1910.

Appointments

Family

Inchcape was the son of James Mackay, 1st Earl of Inchcape, and Jean Paterson Shanks. Between 22 September 1915 and their divorce in 1931, Lord Inchcape was married to Frances Caroline Joan Moriarty, daughter of John Francis Moriarty, Lord Justice of the Irish Court of Appeal and his first wife Katherine Kavanagh. They had four children -

On 1 June 1933 he married Leonora Margaret Brooke, daughter of Charles Vyner Brooke, His Highness The Rajah of Sarawak and Sylvia Brett, Ranee of Sarawak.[1] They had two children -

References
  1. "Lord Inchcape". Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette. British Newspaper Archive. 17 May 1933. p. 6. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
James Mackay		 Earl of Inchcape
1932 – 1939		 Succeeded by
Kenneth James William Mackay


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