Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk (b. before 1649–1688) was a Scottish nobleman.

Life

Commissioned as a captain in

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's Scottish Guards at

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in 1659, he was later a colonel in the Forfarshire militia. He attended the

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sporadically in the 1670s but attended more regularly through the 1680s. In 1666 he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for wounding

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in a duel. He inherited the

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from James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk in 1669. King

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granted a charter for an area of moorland to the west of Kinnaird, Angus and

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called Monrommon to Carnegie.

Family

Southesk married before 1664, Lady Anna Hamilton, eldest daughter of

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and had issue: *

Charles Carnegie, 4th Earl of Southesk Charles Carnegie, 4th Earl of Southesk (1661–1699) was a Scottish nobleman. He inherited the earldom from Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk. References 1661 births 1699 deaths Charles Charles is a masculine given name p ...

(1661–1699) * William Carnegie, (1662–1681) killed in Paris during a duel by William Tollemache youngest son of

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References

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