Miklós Vay [SEP] occupation
Miklós Vay
Baron Miklós Vay de Vaja et Laskod (29 April 1802 – 13 May 1894) was a Hungarian politician, who served as Speaker of the House of Magnates between 1888 and 1894, his death.
Biography.
Vay was born in Alsózsolca on 29 April 1802. His father was Hussar General Miklós I Vay. After finishing law studies he managed his family estates. He participated in the policy of Zemplén County starting in 1825; deputy recorder, then deputy lieutenant (Viscount; "vicecomes"),
a decade of silence when he participated in the movements of the Protestants against the religious edict. He was appointed Court Chancellor in 1860 but resigned after a year when the King dissolved the Diet of 1861. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 he served as a Crown Guard again. He was appointed Speaker of the House of Magnates in 1888, when his predecessor Pál Sennyey died in office. Vay became Priviy Councillor and Chairman of the Calvinist Convention in Hungary. Miklós Vay died in Budapest on 13 May 1894, at