Lord Reay : Donald James Mackay (1839-1921): born in Netherlands: member of the 2nd Chamber of the State’s General, Netherlands 1871-5: naturalized in England by Act of Parliament 1877: a Liberal statesman, he was made a Peer of the U.K. 1881: Rector of St. Andrew’s 1884: Governor of Bombay (1885-90): Under Secretary of State for India 1894-5: Chairman of the London School Board, 1897, President of the Royal Asiatic Society. [Buckland] He was also a friend of Sayājirao & advised him to return to Baroda when the Bāpat Case (q.v.) got out of hand in 1894
... would prefer persistence in commercial boycott to the use of the powers conceded. Or if education were similarly Page 157 made free of official control and entrusted to a popular body, as Lord Reay once thought of entrusting it, no sensible politician would ask the nation to boycott that education. Or if the courts were manned by Indian judges and made responsible not to the Executive but to ...
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