Douglas Carnegie

Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas George Carnegie (4 January 1870 – 27 February 1937) was a British politician.

He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Carnegie, 9th Earl of Northesk and Elizabeth Georgina Frances Elliot.

Carnegie was commissioned into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in 1888. He resigned his commission as a Major in 1905. From 1917 to 1918 he served with the Labour Corps and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel.

He married Margaret Jean Johnstone-Douglas, daughter of Arthur Henry Johnstone-Douglas and Jane Maitland Stewart, on 26 April 1894 and had four children:

• John Douglas Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk (16 February 1895–1975)
• David Alexander Carnegie (15 January 1897–2 April 1917)
• Lady Jean Douglas Carnegie (31 August 1899)
• Margaret Carnegie (7 June 1901–19 April 1946)

References

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Douglas Carnegie