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The Honourable Swynfen Thomas Carnegie MP KSF (8 March 1813 – 29 November 1879) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be

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Early life

Swynfen Thomas Carnegie was born the youngest son of Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk and his wife Mary on 8 March 1813.O'Byrne, ''Naval Biographical Dictionary'', p.169.

Naval career

Carnegie joined the Royal Navy on 3 August 1826 as a

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on board the

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HMS ''Undaunted''. He later served in the same rank on the

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HMS ''St Vincent'', flag ship of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Hotham, and the brig-sloop HMS ''Raleigh''. He was promoted to lieutenant on 21 April 1832 and was appointed on 9 November to serve on the frigate HMS ''Castor'', commanded by Commodore Lord John Hay, later moving with Hay to the post ship HMS ''North Star''. In these ships he participated in the First Carlist War and was rewarded by Spain with the

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. He was promoted to

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on 28 June 1838 and given command of the

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HMS ''Orestes'' on 10 August 1842. He transferred to the steam sloop HMS ''Devastation'' in November 1843 and served with her until February 1844. Promoted to

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on 10 June 1845, he was given command of the frigate . Subsequently, he commanded the frigates HMS ''Tribune'' and HMS ''Leander'' in the Black Sea during the Crimean War. Later he commanded the ship of the line HMS ''Edinburgh'' before being appointed

in 1859. He went on to be Captain of the ship of the line HMS ''Colossus'' in 1862 and Commodore of the Coast Guard Service at

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in 1863.

Political career

He was Member of Parliament for

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from 1841 to 1847. In 1846 he briefly served as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury.

Personal life

In 1858 Carnegie married Albertine Louise Hope, the eldest daughter of John Adrian Hope, the second son of Thomas Hope.Hemming, ''The Law Reports'', p. 263.Dod, ''The Peerage'', p. 615. The couple divorced in 1872.''Kelly's Handbook'', p. 75.

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