Simon Brooke Mackay, Baron Tanlaw

Simon Brooke Mackay, Baron Tanlaw (born March 30, 1934 ) is a British entrepreneur and politician of the Liberal Party, which was dissolved in 1988, and has been a member of the House of Lords since 1971 , where he is now one of the non-party members ( Crossbenchers ).

Life

Mackay, third son of Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape , was a grandson of Charles Vyner Brooke , who was the third and last white Raja of Sarawak in what is now Malaysia between 1917 and 1946 . After serving as a sub-lieutenant in the XII between 1952 and 1954 . Royal Lancer served in the Malaya Federation , settling in Britain in the late 1950s.

In the general election on October 8, 1959 , a by-election in 1960 and the general election of October 15, 1964 , Mackay applied unsuccessfully for the Liberal Party in the Galloway constituency for a mandate in the House of Commons .

He then became increasingly involved in the family-owned Inchcape company , where he became director in 1967. He kept this position until the mid-1990s, as the family's influence in the company declined.

In 1971 he was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer with the title of Baron Tanlaw , of Tanlawhill in the County of Dumfries, and has been a member of the House of Lords ever since non-party members of the House of Lords, the so-called Crossbencher .

Because of his special relationship with Malaysia, he was President of the Sarawak Association for the first time between 1973 and 1975 . He was later a member of the board of directors of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 1980 to 1996 and again President of the Sarawak Association between 1997 and 1999 .

Baron Tanlaw is still in the private sector and, among other things, Chairman of the Board of Fandstan Electric Group Ltd, which he owns, a private group of companies in the electrical and railway engineering sector. In 2014 the company was sold.

Since April 2010 he has also been Chancellor of the University of Buckingham , the only private university in England .

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on June 30, 2012)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed June 30, 2012)
• Simon Mackay at Hansard (English)