The Baroness Mackie of Benshie, died 14 July, 2024. She was 94.
She was the second wife and widow of the life peer the Baron Mackie of Benshie, CBE, DSO, DFC (1919-2015), a Liberal and Lib Dem politician.
She was the former Jacqueline Rauch, born 30 January, 1930, daughter of Colonel Marcel Rauch, and married 1stly, Andrew Lane, and married 2ndly, in 1988, as his second wife, George Mackie.
Her husband was elected Member of Parliament for Caithness and Sutherland in 1964. In the Commons he served as a Liberal party whip. He lost his seat in 1966, when he was defeated by the Labour candidate Robert Maclennan, who was to become a party colleague of Mackie in the late 1980s after he joined the Liberal Democrats via the SDP. Mackie contested Caithness and Sutherland again in 1970, but lost by a wider margin. Having been appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1971, he was given a life peerage, as Baron Mackie of Benshie, of Kirriemuir in the County of Angus on 10 May 1974. In the House of Lords, he served as Agriculture and Scottish Affairs spokesman for the Liberals and their successor parties between 1975 and 2000. Having been chair of the Scottish Liberal Party from 1965 to 1970, he was its president between 1983 and 1988. In 1980, he was elected to serve a three-year term as Rector of the University of Dundee.
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She was born Jacqueline RAUCH on 30 January 1930, dau of Colonel Marcel RAUCH of France. She m firstly Andrew LANE (dec) and secondly 1988 (his 2nd wife) the Life Peer BARON MACKIE of BENSHIE CBE DSO DFC 1919-2015 (also brother of the Life Peer BARON JOHN-MACKIE 1907-94). No issue of the marriage.
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