David John MacRae Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk (3 November 1954 – 28 March 2010), styled Lord Rosehill between 1975 and 1994, was a British

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, landowner and member of the

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Background

David Carnegie was the second son of Robert Carnegie, 13th Earl of Northesk, and Jean Margaret MacRae.

Political career

Lord Northesk inherited the earldom on his father's death in 1994, his elder brother having been accidentally drowned in infancy. He thereby became a member of the

, where he sat on the

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benches. He was later one of the 92 peers elected to remain in the House following the passing of the

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. In the House of Lords, he spoke on topics relating to civil liberties and privacy, and spoke out against the

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and new online copyright laws such as those contained in the

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Family

Lord Northesk married Jacqueline Dundas Reid in 1979. They had four children: * Alexander Robert Macrae Carnegie, Lord Rosehill (born 16 November 1980, committed

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31 August 2001) * Lady Sarah Louise Mary Carnegie (born 29 October 1982) * Lady Fiona Jean Elizabeth Carnegie (born 24 March 1987) * Lady Sophie Margaret Jean Carnegie (born 9 January 1990) In 2001, his eldest child and only son Lord Rosehill, a psychiatric patient, shot himself in the head with his father's gun whilst on leave from hospital at the family's farm in

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. He was 20 years old. Northesk died at the age of 55 from cancerThe Scotsman, obituary, published 1 April 2010
/ref> and was succeeded in the earldom by his eighth cousin once removed,

Patrick Carnegy Patrick Charles Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk (born 23 September 1940 by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...

for a Conservative hereditary peer to replace him.

Notes

References

Northesk
''Who's Who 2010'', A & C Black, 2010; online edn,

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, December 2009; online edn, Nov 2009, accessed 30 March 2010.
David John MacRae Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk
biodata at The Peerage.com *
Earl of Northesk
on the

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