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LORD REAY, formerly Governor of Bombay, and an active worker for intellectual interests in many directions, died on August i in his eighty-second year. From a detailed notice in the Times we extract the following particulars of his career: Born on December 22, 1839, Lord Reay was educated at the Gymnasium at The Hague and at the University of Leyden, where he graduated in laws. In 1866 he made a tour through the United States for the purpose of studying the social and political condition of the country at a particularly interesting period of reconstruction. On his return to Holland he was elected president of a Society for the Promotion of Manufactures and Handicrafts, and in that capacity he organ ised the first industrial exhibition which was ever attempted in Holland. In 1871 he was returned to the Chamber of Representatives of the StatesGeneral as Liberal member for Tiel, and again in 1875, the year in which his father succeeded to the Scottish title of Reay, on the death of the ninth baron. In 1877 he resigned his seat in the Dutch Chamber of Representatives, and became naturalised as a British subject. He was created a baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1881, and in 1884 was elected rector of St. Andrews University.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 107, 720–721 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107720a0
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