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'''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, 2nd Earl of Inchcape]]. During the [[Second World War]], he gained the rank of [[Lieutenant]] with the [[12th Royal Lancers]] and [[Major (rank)|Major]] with the [[27th Lancers]].
==Education==
Inchcape attended [[Eton College|Eton]], and [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]].
==Appointments==
*Director (1957-1983), Chairman (1973-1983), and Chief Executive (1978-1981) of [[Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company|P&O]]
*Chairman and Chief Executive of [[Inchcape plc|Inchcape & Company Limited]] (1958-1982)
*Chairman of the Committee for Middle East Trade [COMET] (1963-1965)
*President of the [[Royal India Society|Royal Society for India, Pakistan and Ceylon]] (1970-1976)
*President of the [[Shipping Federation|General Council of British Shipping]] (1976-1977)
*Director of [[Burmah Oil]]
*Director of [[Standard Chartered|Standard and Chartered Banking Group Limited]]
*Director of [[Standard Chartered|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 [[Frances Caroline Joan Moriarty|Joan Moriarty]], daughter of [[John Francis Moriarty]], [[Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland|Lord Justice]] of the [[Irish Court of Appeal]]. His half-brother on his father's side was the [[life peer]] [[Simon Mackay, Baron Tanlaw]].
Between 12 February 1941 and their divorce in 1954, Lord Inchcape was married to [[Aline Thorn Pease]], widow of an R.A.F. officer,<ref>{{cite news |title=Lord Inchcape to Wed Yorks Widow of R.A.F. pilot|work=[[Yorkshire Evening Post]]|date=7 February 1941|accessdate=22 September 2014 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000273/19410207/119/0005| publisher = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|page=6|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and daughter of [[Sir Richard Pease, 2nd Baronet]] and Jeanette Thorn Kissel. They had three children –
* Lucinda Louise Mackay, born 13 December 1941
*[[Peter Mackay, 4th Earl of Inchcape]], born 23 January 1943
*James Jonathan Thorn Mackay, born 28 May 1947.
On 3 February 1965 he married Caroline Harrison, daughter of [[Emo Court|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 [[Lloyd's of London]]'s first female [[underwriting|Name]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Woman Becomes Lloyds Underwriter|url=http://www.britishpathe.com/video/woman-becomes-lloyds-underwriter|accessdate=22 August 2015|agency=British Pathé|date=1969|format=Video}}</ref>
==References==
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*[http://www.thepeerage.com/p22002.htm 3rd Earl of Inchcape at thepeerage.com]
*[http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/inchcape1929.htm Inchcape, Earl of (UK, 1929) at cracroftspeerage.co.uk]
*''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'' (107th edition, 2003) volume 2, page 2031
*[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-the-earl-of-inchcape-corrected-1431822.html Obituary] ''The Independent''
*[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/21/obituaries/lord-inchcape-dies-shipping-chief-was-76.html Obituary] ''NYT''
==External links==
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-kenneth-mackay-1 | the Earl of Inchcape }}
*http://www.jta.org/1964/07/31/archive/british-trade-council-for-middle-east-says-it-accedes-to-arab-boycott
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=QtRojsvBm8wC&dq=inchcape+comet+trade&pg=PA187 Britain and the Middle East: Economic History, 1945-87 p187 by Frank Brenchley]
*[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03068376408731875?journalCode=raaf19#.Vdg_Apc5KHM The Comet Trade Mission to Syria and Iran by Sir Edwin Chapman Andrews]
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