Mackay, Donald

Dates	1630s, 1644
Location	London, Newcastle
Vocation	Army officer
Place of Birth	Sutherland?, Scotland
Marriage	Barbara Mackenzie; Elizabeth Thomson
Issue	7 children
Place of birth		Source	Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; J.B. Paul, The Scots Peerage: A History of the Noble Families of Scotland, 9 vols (Edinburgh, 1904-1914), vii, 169

First Lord Reay. Justice of the peace for Inverness-shire and Cromarty (1610), then commissioner of peace for Sutherland. The majority of his army career was spent in the service of Danish-Norwegian and Swedish armies. Lord Reay was a staunch royalist. Was made a peer of Scotland (1628). Appears to have spent time in Enlgnad in the 1630s with various personal and political affairs. Imprisoned in Tower of London (1631). During British civil wars fought at Newcastle (1644) until taken prisoner and imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle. Reay died abroad but was buried at Kirkiboll church at Tongue in Strathnaver.

According to the J.B. Paul's Scots Peerage, Lord Reay married a third time to Marjory Sinclar, having a further five children.