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Barony in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Baron Maclay
, of
Glasgow
in the County of Lanark,
[1]
is a title in the
Peerage of the United Kingdom
. It was created in 1922 for the Scottish businessman
Sir Joseph Maclay, 1st Baronet
. He was Chairman of Maclay & Macintyre, shipowners, of
Glasgow
, and also served as
Minister of Shipping
in the war-time coalition of
David Lloyd George
, without being in Parliament. Maclay had already been created a
Baronet
, of Park Terrace in the City of Glasgow in the County of Lanark, in 1914.
[2]
His eldest surviving son, the second Baron, represented
Paisley
in the
House of Commons
as a
Liberal
. As of 2010
[update]
the titles are held by the latter's eldest son, the third Baron, who succeeded in 1969.
Another member of the Maclay family was the politician
John Maclay, 1st Viscount Muirshiel
. He was the fifth son of the first Baron Maclay.
In 1913, the first Lord Maclay purchased
Duchal House
in
Kilmacolm
,
Inverclyde
which remains the family home to this day. The former Lords Maclay are buried alongside the Viscount Muirshiel in the graveyard of Mount Zion Church in
Quarrier's Village
.
Barons Maclay (1922)
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The
heir apparent
is the present holder's son Joseph Paton Maclay (born 1977).
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