Arms of the 1st to 6th and 15th Earls of Northesk

Patrick Charles Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk (born 23 September 1940),Dr Patrick Carnegy Authorised Biography
– Debrett’s People of Today. is a British

hereditary peer The hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the United Kingdom. As of September 2022, there are 807 hereditary peers: 29 dukes (including five royal dukes), 34 marquesses, 190 earls, 111 viscounts, and 443 barons (disregarding subsid ...

, journalist and scholar. Carnegy was educated at Rugby School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matriculating in 1960. His books include ''Faust as Musician: A Study of Thomas Mann’s novel ‘Doctor Faustus’'' (1973) and ''Wagner and the Art of the Theatre'' (2006, Royal Philharmonic Soc Award, Special Jury Prize George Freedley Memorial Award), which took 40 years to write. Other publications include reviews and articles on German literature, music, opera (especially Wagner) and theatre for The Times Literary and Educational Supplements, the London Review of Books, The Spectator, Opera, The Musical Times, and other journals. As a broadcaster he was a regular contributor in the 1970s and 1980s to BBC Radio 4's arts magazine '' Kaleidoscope''. Contributions to Radio 3 have included documentaries on Thomas Mann, Kafka, the Barenboim/Kupfer Ring at Bayreuth (1988), and the first assessment of the Ring on DVD for CD Review (2008) Radio 3's ''CD Review''. For television he contributed to BBC 2's documentary film Wagner in the Great Composers series (1998). In 1988 he was invited by Jeremy Isaacs to create the post of Dramaturg (literary and repertory adviser) at the Royal Opera House. There he initiated a programme of lectures, study days and other events open to all. He was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (1994–1996). He was a founding member of the Bayreuth International Arts Centre and served on the BBC Central Music Advisory Committee (1986–1989) and on the BBC General Advisory Council (1990–1996). Lord Northesk is an

agnatic Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritanc ...

descendant of David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk. He inherited the earldom on the death of his eighth cousin once removed, David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, on 28 March 2010.Earl of Northesk
Peerage News, Google Groups, 30 March 2010. Lord Northesk lives with his wife, soprano Jill Gomez, in Cambridgeshire.

References

1940 births Living people People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Patrick British music critics {{Scotland-earl-stub