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British politician
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
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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
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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
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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
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"Leigh Rayment ? Baronetage"
. Archived from the original on 1 May 2008
. Retrieved
14 June
2009
.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (
link
)
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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
.
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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.
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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
.
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cite web
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (
link
)
- ^
"Leigh Rayment ? British House of Commons, Forfarshire"
. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009
. Retrieved
14 June
2009
.
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cite web
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (
link
)
- ^
a
b
Constable, Archibald (1805).
The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany
. Edinburgh: John Ruthven and Sons. p. 486.
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"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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