Simon Brooke Mackay, Baron Tanlaw (born 30 March 1934) is a former member of the House of Lords. Family and business interests Tanlaw is the fourth son of Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape. His mother, the 2nd Earl's second wife, was Leonora Margaret Brooke, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, the final White Rajah of Sarawak, and his wife the Ranee Sylvia. Simon Mackay served as second lieutenant with the 12th Royal Lancers in Malaya between 1952 and 1954. He married Joanna Susan Hirsch in 1959 and they had two sons, James Brooke and Joshua Alexander, and two daughters, Iona Heloise and Rebecca Alexandra. Mackay and Hirsch later divorced. He married his second wife, Malaysian Rina Siew Yong, in 1974. They have a son, Brooke Brooke, and a daughter, Asia Brooke who is married to Andrew Trotter, founder and CEO of Global lingo, a multinational translation company. Tanlaw has eight grandchildren. Tanlaw takes a particular interest in the Far East, in particular Malaysia. He was a director of the family firm, Inchcape plc, with many business interests in the region from 1967 to the mid-1990s, at which point Mackay family involvement in the company ceased. The business was subsequently restructured into an automotive only company. Tanlaw currently owns Fandstan Electric Group Ltd, a railway and engineering company. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2012, Tanlaw and his family were ranked equal 63rd in Scotland, with an estimated fortune of £85 million. Lord Tanlaw was the Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. He was appointed in April 2010, in succession to Sir Martin Jacomb, before stepping down in 2013, when he was succeeded by The Hon. Lady Keswick. Tanlaw has served as both president and treasurer of the Sarawak Association and is a member of the Oriental Club, London and White's, London. He was a member of the executive committee of the Great Britain-China Centre between 1981 and 1988. Political life Simon Mackay was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for Galloway in 1959, and by the late 1960s was joint Treasurer of the Scottish Liberal Party. He was created a life peer on 21 May 1971 as Baron Tanlaw, of Tanlawhill in the County of Dumfries. Lord Tanlaw sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative after many years as a crossbencher. He attended the chamber and voted regularly, and took a particular interest in debates concerning energy conservation, global