David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk

David John MacRae Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk (3 November 1954 – 28 March 2010) was a British hereditary peer, landowner and member of the House of Lords.

David Carnegie was the son of Robert, the 13th Earl (1926–94), and Jean Margaret MacRae. In 1979, he married Jacqueline Dundas Reid and had four children:

• Alexander Robert Macrae Carnegie, Lord Rosehill (16 November 1980 – 31 August 2001)
• The Lady Sarah Louise Mary Carnegie (born 29 October 1982)
• The Lady Fiona Jean Elizabeth Carnegie (born 24 March 1987)
• The Lady Sophie Margaret Jean Carnegie (born 9 January 1990)

Lord Northesk inherited the earldom on his father's death, his elder brother having been accidentally drowned in infancy. He thereby became a member of the House of Lords, where he sat on the Conservative benches. He was later one of the 92 peers elected to remain in the House following the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

In 2001, his eldest child, and only son, Lord Rosehill, a psychiatric patient, shot himself in the head with his father's gun while on leave from hospital at the family's farm in West Sussex. He was 20 years old.

In the House of Lords, Lord Northesk spoke on topics relating to civil liberties and privacy, and spoke out against the Identity Cards Act 2006 and new online copyright laws such as those contained in the Digital Economy Act 2010.

On his death at age 55 from undisclosed causes, Lord Northesk was succeeded in the earldom by a distant relative. His vacant seat in the House of Lords triggered a by-election for a Conservative hereditary peer to replace him.

References

• Northesk, Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2009 ; online edn, Nov 2009, accessed 30 March 2010
• David John MacRae Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, biodata at The Peerage.com
• Smith, Mark (30 March 2010). "Peer blighted by tragedy, the Earl of Northesk, dies aged 55". The Scotsman (Edinburgh: Johnston Press Digital Publishing). http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Peer-blighted-by-tragedy-the.6189248.jp. Retrieved 29 March 2010. 
• Earl of Northesk on the Open Rights Group wiki

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Robert Carnegie	Earl of Northesk 1994–2010	Succeeded by Patrick Carnegy

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Name	Northesk, David Carnegie, 14th Earl of
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Date of birth	3 November 1954
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Date of death	28 March 2010
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