Douglas Carnegie

Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Douglas George Carnegie (4 January 1870 – 27 February 1937) was a British politician who was Conservative Member of Parliament for Winchester from 1916 to 1918.

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 – 22 July 1975)
  • David Alexander Carnegie (15 January 1897 – 2 April 1917)
  • Lady Jean Douglas Carnegie (b.31 August 1899)
  • Margaret Carnegie (7 June 1901 – 19 April 1946)

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