Sir Peter Mackie, 1st Baronet

{{Short description|Scottish whisky distiller and writer}}

{{about|the distiller and writer|the football player|Peter Mackie (footballer)}}

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| name = Sir Peter Mackie

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| image = File:Peter Mackie, Vanity Fair caricature, 8 April 1908.jpg

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| caption = Mackie caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) for Vanity Fair in 1908.

| office = Chairman of the Scottish Unionist Association

| term_start = 1922

| term_end = 22 September 1924

| office2 = Chairman of Mackie & Co (Distillers)

| term_start2 = 1895

| term_end2 = 22 September 1924

| birth_name = Peter Jeffrey Mackie

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| birth_place = St Ninians, Stirling, Scotland

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1924|09|24|1855|11|26|df=yes}}

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Sir Peter Jeffrey Mackie, 1st Baronet, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|JP}} (26 November 1855 – 22 September 1924) was a Scottish whisky distiller and writer.

Mackie was born at St Ninians, Stirling. His father, Alexander Mackie (died 1884), was a distiller. His mother was Jane Simpson Brown (died 1886).

He was educated at Stirling High School and in 1878 joined his uncle's firm, James L. Mackie & Co, at the Lagavulin distillery on Islay. In the mid-1880s, he became a founding partner in Mackie & Co, which was established to market Lagavulin and other whiskies in London. In 1890, the two businesses amalgamated as Mackie & Co (Distillers) and began to blend White Horse. In 1895, Mackie's became a limited company and Peter Mackie became chairman, a post he held until his death. In 1924, the firm was renamed White Horse Distillers Ltd and became a public company.

Mackie travelled and wrote extensively on politics, especially on tariff reform and Imperial Federation. In 1918 he made a gift of pedigree cattle to Rhodesia to encourage ranching and cattle breeding. He also financed the Mackie Anthropological Expedition to Uganda. He was also a major landowner (owning {{convert|12000|acre|km2}} in Argyllshire), a Justice of the Peace for Argyllshire, Ayrshire and Lanarkshire, and an active member of the Scottish Unionist Association, serving as chairman from 1922.

He was created a baronet in the 1920 Birthday Honours.{{London Gazette|issue=31931|supp=y|page=6314|date=4 June 1920}}