Aeneas James George Mackay

Aeneas James George Mackay (3 November 1839 – 10 June 1911) was a Scottish lawyer and academic, known as a legal and historical writer.

Born at 7 Albyn Place[1] on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh on 3 November 1839 and was son of Mary, daughter of John Kirkcaldy of Baldovie, Forfarshire and Thomas George Mackay, writer to the signet.

[2] Mackay was granted an honorary doctorate (LLD) by the University of Edinburgh in 1882, a Queen's Counsel in 1897,[3] and was a fellow of King's College, London.

He is buried with his parents in the churchyard of St John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh on Princes Street, close to his home.

Other works were:[2] For the Scottish History Society Mackay wrote a life of John Mair, for Archibald Constable's translation of Mair's History of Great Britain (1892); and for the Scottish Text Society he supplied in 1884 an introduction and appendix for an edition of the Poems of William Dunbar, and also edited Lindsay of Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland in 1899.

His last works were connected with the statute law revision for Scotland, for which he prepared an account of pre-Union legislation, issued as a Blue Book.