Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of SoutheskJPDL (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 and his first wife Catherine Hamilton Noel, daughter of the
Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough.[1] He had three older sisters, Lady Arabella Charlotte (wife of Samuel Romilly), Lady Constance Mary (wife of
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin) 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.[1] 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
Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar), Hon. Robert Francis (who married Violet Fraser), and Hon.
David Wynford Carnegie.[1]
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
glens and was the seat of the Earls of Southesk for more than 600 years, burnt to the ground.[6] "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
Raeburn's portrait of Lady Carnegie, valued at £10,000, were lost."[6] Lord Southesk rebuilt the castle.[7][8] A prominent art collector,[9] he owned "a large collection of paintings by
old masters and antique gems."[10]
Lady Katherine Ethel Carnegie (b. 1892), who married Maj. Arthur Rivers Bosanquet MC (1890–1971), eldest son and heir of Richard Arthur Bosanquet and Ruth Rivers Thompson (eldest daughter of Sir
Augustus Rivers Thompson,
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal), in 1917. They divorced in 1940.[1]
Hon. Alexander Bannerman Carnegie (b. 1894), a
Commander in the
Royal Navy 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
James Carnegie, 9th Earl of Southesk), 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.[1]
Lady Mary Elizabeth Carnegie (1899–1996), who married
Vice-AdmiralConolly Abel Smith, 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.[1][17]
He and his wife are briefly mentioned in the successful British television series Downton Abbey, in which they are mentioned as paying their respects to the fictitious Countess of Grantham (played by
Elizabeth McGovern), following their attendance of a family funeral.[episode needed]
^"De La Warr, Earl (GB, 1761)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited.
Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
^The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland containing an historical and genealogical account of the Nobility of that Kingdom edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, vol VIII, (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911) digitized by Google Books, p. 92