JAMES MACKAY, former lord chancellor under prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, has died at the age of 99.The son of a railway signalman, he was born in Edinburgh in 1927 and studied mathematics and physics at the University of St Andrew’s. He went on to teach at Cambridge University before returning to Edinburgh to study law — graduating in 1955.Ten years later he was appointed a QC, and served as Dean of Faculty of Advocates from 1976 until being made a Tory peer in 1979.

JAMES MACKAY, former lord chancellor under prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, has died at the age of 99.

The son of a railway signalman, he was born in Edinburgh in 1927 and studied mathematics and physics at the University of St Andrew’s. He went on to teach at Cambridge University before returning to Edinburgh to study law — graduating in 1955.

Ten years later he was appointed a QC, and served as Dean of Faculty of Advocates from 1976 until being made a Tory peer in 1979.

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