INCHCAPE, JAMES LYLE MACKAY, 1ST EARL (1852-1932), British shipowner, was born at Arbroath, Forfar shire, on Sept. 11, 1852, and educated there and at Elgin. In 1874 he went to India to join the firm of Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Company, Calcutta, of which he ultimately became senior partner; he was a member of the legislative council of the Viceroy (1891-93) and a member of the Council of India from 1897 to 191I. In 1902, consequent upon the Boxer rebellion, Mackay negotiated a commercial treaty with China. In 1911 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Inchcape of Strathnaver. As a representative of the shipping industry Inchcape took a leading part in all its affairs both during the World War and after, being president of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom (1893, 1918, 1919) and president of the Shipping Federation (1926). He served on most of the Government commissions of inquiry both in India and England. He was a member of the Geddes committee on national expenditure (1921), and chairman of the Indian retrenchment committee (1922). In 1924 he was created viscount and G.C.S.I. The positions of chairman of the P. and O. Steam Navigation Company and director of the Na tional Provincial Bank and Suez Canal Company were other im portant positions which he occupied. In 1928 Lord Inchcape lost his daughter, Miss Elsie Mackay, in an attempted trans Atlantic flight. He was created an earl, June 3, 1929.