Sir David Carnegie, 4th Baronet
Sir David Carnegie of Pitarrow, 4th Baronet FRS FRSE (22 November 1753 – 25 May 1805)[1] was a Scottish politician and (but for the attainder of the 5th Earl) 7th Earl of Southesk, 7th Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and 7th Baron Carnegie, of Kinnaird and Leuchars.
Background[edit]
He was born in Kincardineshire[2] the oldest son of Sir James Carnegie, 3rd Baronet and his wife Christian Doig (d.1820), daughter of David Doig.[3] In 1765, aged only twelve, Carnegie succeeded his father as baronet and as claimant to the Earldom of Southesk.[3] He was educated at Eton College, the University of St Andrews and Christ Church, Oxford.[4]
Career[edit]
Carnegie entered the British House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberdeen Burghs in 1784, sitting for the constituency until 1790.[5] He then represented Forfarshire in the Parliament of Great Britain from 1796 until the Act of Union in 1801, then subsequently in the Parliament of the United Kingdom until his death in 1805.[6] Carnegie was Deputy Governor of the British Linen Company.[7] He partly rebuild and improved Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, the family's ancestral seat.[8]
Family[edit]
On 23 April 1783,[9] he married Agnes Murray Elliot, daughter of Andrew Elliot, at Edinburgh[10] and had by her ten daughters and two sons.[7] Carnegie died at Gloucester Place in London[11] and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields.[4] He was succeeded in his titles by his older son James.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage". Archived from the original on 1 May 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ a b c Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 213.
- ^ a b Douglas, Sir Robert (1911). Sir James Balfour Paul (ed.). The Scots Peerage. Vol. VIII. Edinburgh: David Douglas. pp. 86–88.
- ^ "Leigh Rayment – Baronetage, Aberdeen". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Leigh Rayment – British House of Commons, Forfarshire". Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 14 June 2009.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ a b Constable, Archibald (1805). The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany. Edinburgh: John Ruthven and Sons. p. 486.
- ^ "Historic Scotland – History of Kinnaird Castle". Retrieved 14 June 2009.
- ^ "Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYMY-YM9 : 11 February 2020), Agnes Murray Elliot in entry for David Baronet Carnegie, 1783, accessed 20 May 2022
- ^ "ThePeerage – Sir David Carnegie, 4th Bt". Retrieved 25 February 2007.
- ^ Sylvanus, Urban (1805). The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. I. London: John Nichols and Son. p. 585.
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