Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk JP DL (20 March 1854 – 10 November 1941), was a Scottish nobleman.

Early life

Carnegie was the son of the explorer and poet

James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk, (16 November 1827 – 21 February 1905) was a Scotland, Scottish nobleman, explorer and poet. Early life Born in Edinburgh, on 16 November 1827, Southesk was the son of Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet and C ...

and his first wife Catherine Hamilton Noel, daughter of the Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough. He had three older sisters, Lady Arabella Charlotte (wife of Samuel Romilly), Lady Constance Mary (wife of

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) and Lady Beatrice Diana Cecilia Diana Cecillia (wife of the Rev. Henry Holmes Stewart). After his mother's death in 1855 at the age of twenty-six, his father remarried to Lady Susan Catherine Mary Murray (eldest daughter of the 6th Earl of Dunmore) in 1860. From his father's second marriage, he had seven younger half-siblings, including: Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie, Lady Dora Susan (wife of Maj. Ernest de Rodakowski-Rivers), Lady Elizabeth Erica, Lady Helena Mariota, Lady Katherine Agnes Blanche (wife of

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), Hon. Robert Francis (who married Violet Fraser), and Hon.

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. His paternal grandparents were

Sir James Carnegie, 5th Baronet Sir James Carnegie of Kinnaird and of Pitarrow, 5th Baronet DL (1799 – 30 January 1849) was a Scottish politician and ''de jure'' 8th Earl of Southesk, 8th Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and 8th Baron Carnegie of Kinnaird and Leuchars. Background ...

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Earl of Southesk Earl of Southesk is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1633 for David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, Sir David Carnegie, an Extraordinary Lord of Session. He had already been created Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird in 1616 and was ...

) and the former Charlotte Lysons (a daughter of the Reverend Daniel Lysons). He was educated at

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and

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, and would later receive an honorary degree from the university in October 1902.

Career

Amongst his various offices, he was commissioned as a

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in the part-time Forfar and Kincardine Artillery Militia in 1872 and steadily progressed through the officer ranks until he became the Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant in 1894, with the honorary rank of

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. He retired from the command in 1906. He also served as a Deputy Lieutenant for

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, and

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from 5 January 1900. He held the office of Justice of the Peace for Aberdeenshire and for Angus.Mosley, Charles, editor. ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes''.

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, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. p. 1429. In 1905, he succeeded his father as the 10th Earl of Southesk who had restored the family titles, with the original precedence, by reversal of the 1715

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in 1855. He had the reputation of being the best game shot in Scotland. In 1921, Kinnaird Castle, which was situated in one of the grandest Scottish

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s and was the seat of the Earls of Southesk for more than 600 years, burnt to the ground. "Only a small part of the servant's wing has escaped. A considerable part of the library was saved, but many books impossible to replace, as well as

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's portrait of Lady Carnegie, valued at £10,000, were lost." Lord Southesk rebuilt the castle. A prominent art collector, he owned "a large collection of paintings by

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s and antique gems."

Personal life

On 1 August 1891, he was married to Ethel Mary Elizabeth Bannerman, the only child of Sir Alexander Bannerman, 9th Baronet and Lady Arabella Diana Sackville-West (the youngest daughter of

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and

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). Together, they had five children, three sons and two daughters:''

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), in 1917. They divorced in 1940. * Charles Alexander Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk (1893–1992), who married Princess Maud Alexandra Victoria Georgina Bertha of Fife, second daughter of

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and

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, eldest daughter of King

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, in 1923. * Hon. Alexander Bannerman Carnegie (b. 1894), a

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in the

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who married his cousin Susan Ottilia de Rodakowski-Rivers (d. 1968), a daughter of Maj. Ernest de Rodakowski-Rivers and Lady Dora Susan Carnegie (eldest daughter by his second wife of

), in 1919. After her death, he married Cynthia Averil Gurney, the former wife of Capt. Alexander Hugh Gurney and eldest daughter of Brig. Harold Vincent Spencer Charrington of Winchfield House, in 1969. * Lady Mary Elizabeth Carnegie (1899–1996), who married

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, second son of Eustace Abel Smith of Longhills and the former Ailleen Geta Catherine Connolly (eldest daughter of Col. John Augustus Connolly VC), in 1932. * Hon. James ''Duthac'' Carnegie (1910–1996), a Maj. in the British Army who married Claudia Katharine Angela Blackburn (d. 2001), the youngest daughter of

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and Lady Constance Frances Bowes-Lyon (eldest daughter of

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), in 1935. Through her uncle,

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, Claudia was a first cousin of

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(the mother of

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). Lord Southesk died on 10 November 1941 at Kinnaird Castle near

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, County Angus. Lady Southesk died on 10 December 1947.

Descendants

Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of James George Alexander Bannerman Carnegie, who succeeded his maternal aunt,

Princess Arthur of Connaught Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife (Alexandra Victoria Alberta Edwina Louise Duff; 17 May 1891 – 26 February 1959), born Lady Alexandra Duff and known as Princess Arthur of Connaught after her marriage, was the eldest surviving grandchi ...

, ''

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, as the 3rd Duke of Fife in the

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in 1959 because her only child,

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, had predeceased her. In 1992, the Duke became the 12th Earl of Southesk in the

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In popular culture

He and his wife are briefly mentioned in the successful British television series ''

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'', in which they are mentioned as paying their respects to the fictitious Countess of Grantham (played by

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), following their attendance of a family funeral.

References

External links

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