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{{Infobox hereditary title
| name              = Earldom of Northesk
| image             = [[File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg|150px|centre]][[File:John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk.svg|180px|centre]] 
| image_size        =  
| alt               =  
| caption           = '''Arms:''' Quarterly: 1st & 4th, Or, an Eagle displayed Azure, armed, beaked and membered Sable, and charged on the breast with a Naval Crown Or ''(Carneigie)''; 2nd & 3rd, Argent, a Pale Gules ''(Earldom of Northesk)''. '''Crests:''' 1st, The stern of a French Man-of-War with three Lanthorns, all proper, inflamed Gules, on a Scroll the word '''TRAFALGAR'''; 2nd, Issuant from a Naval Crown Or, a Demi-Leopard proper, holding a Rose Argent, barbed and seeded proper, on a Scroll the words '''BRITANNIA VICTRIX'''. '''Supporters:''' on either side a Leopard reguardant proper, gorged with Roses Argent, barbed and seeded Vert, each supporting a Banner of St George proper.
| creation_date     = 1 November 1647 
| creation          = First 
| monarch           = [[Charles I of England|Charles I]] 
| peerage           = [[Peerage of Scotland]] 
| baronetage        =  
| first_holder      = [[John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk|John Carnegie]] 
| last_holder       =  
| present_holder    = [[Patrick Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk|Patrick Carnegy, 15th Earl]] 
| heir_apparent     =  
| heir_presumptive  = Hon. Colin Carnegy 
| remainder_to      = the 1st Earl’s [[heirs male]] forever 
| subsidiary_titles = Lord Rosehill and Inglismaldie 
| status            = Extant 
| extinction_date   =  
| family_seat       =  
| former_seat       = [[Ethie Castle]] 
| motto             = '''TACHÉ SANS TACHÉ''' <br />''(Spot without stain)'' 
| footnotes         =  
}}
[[Image:7th Earl of Northesk Admiral.jpg|William Carnegie,<br />7th Earl of Northesk|thumb|right|200px]]
'''Earl of Northesk''' is a title in the [[Peerage of Scotland]]. It was created in 1662 for [[John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk|John Carnegie]], who notably served as Sheriff of [[Forfarshire]]. He was given the subsidiary title of '''Lord Rosehill and Eglismauldie''' (or [[Inglismaldie]]) at the same time. Carnegie had already been created [[Earl of Ethie]] and [[Lord Lour]] in 1647 but relinquished those titles in exchange for the 1662 creations. For the purposes of [[Order of precedence|precedence]] and seniority, the earldom of Northesk is treated as having been created in 1647, the date of the creation of the earldom of Ethie.

Lord Northesk's great-grandson, the fourth Earl, sat in the [[House of Lords]] as a [[List of Scottish representative peers|Scottish representative peer]] from 1708 to 1715. His younger son, the sixth Earl, was an [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|admiral]] in the [[Royal Navy]]. He was succeeded by his son, the seventh Earl. He was also an admiral in the navy and was third in command at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]]. Lord Northesk was also a Scottish representative peer between 1796 and 1807 and 1830 and 1831. His grandson, the ninth Earl, was a Scottish representative peer from 1885 to 1891. He was succeeded by his son, the tenth Earl, who served as a Scottish representative peer from 1900 to 1921. His son, the eleventh Earl, was a Scottish representative peer from 1959 to 1963, when all Scottish peers were given an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

The eleventh Earl was succeeded by his first cousin, the twelfth Earl. He was the son of the Hon. [[Douglas Carnegie]], second son of the ninth Earl. The fourteenth Earl was one of the [[List of excepted hereditary peers|ninety elected hereditary peers]] that were allowed to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the [[House of Lords Act 1999]], and sat on the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] benches. When he died without surviving male issue in 2010, the line of the third Earl failed, and the titles passed to his eighth cousin once removed, the fifteenth Earl, who is a writer and a descendant of the second Earl.

[[David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk]], was the elder brother of the first Earl. Another member of the Carnegie/Carnegy family was [[Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour]]. She was a descendant of the Hon. Patrick Carnegie of Lour, third son of the second Earl of Northesk, and a great-great-granddaughter of Major-General Alexander Carnegie (1793–1862) through his first son, making her a third cousin of the fifteenth Earl.

The earldom is named after the [[River North Esk, Angus|River North Esk]] in Angus. The family seat was [[Ethie Castle]], near [[Arbroath]], [[Scotland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ethiecastle.com/history.shtml |title=history |access-date=2007-07-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829191103/http://www.ethiecastle.com/history.shtml |archive-date=2007-08-29 |df=dmy-all |publisher=[[Ethie Castle]] }}</ref>

==Earl of Northesk (1647/1662)==
*[[John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk]] (c. 1580 – 1667)
*[[David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk]] (b. 1627 – 1679)
*[[David Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Northesk]] (1643–1688)
*[[David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk]] (1675–1729)
*[[David Carnegie, 5th Earl of Northesk]] (1701–1741)
*[[George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk]] (1716–1792)
**David Carnegie, Lord Rosehill (1749–1788)
*[[William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk]] (1756–1831)
**George Carnegie, Lord Rosehill (1791–1807)
*[[William Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk|William Hopetoun Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk]] (1794–1878)
*[[George Carnegie, 9th Earl of Northesk|George John Carnegie, 9th Earl of Northesk]] (1843–1891)
*[[David Carnegie, 10th Earl of Northesk|David John Carnegie, 10th Earl of Northesk]] (1865–1921)
*[[David Carnegie, 11th Earl of Northesk|David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, 11th Earl of Northesk]] (1901–1963)
*[[John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk|John Douglas Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk]] (1895–1975)
*[[Robert Carnegie, 13th Earl of Northesk|Robert Andrew Carnegie, 13th Earl of Northesk]] (1926–1994)
*[[David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk|David John MacRae Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk]] (1954–2010)
**Alexander Carnegie, Lord Rosehill (1980–2001)
*[[Patrick Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk|Patrick Charles Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk]] (born 1940)

The [[heir presumptive]] is the present holder's brother, Colin David Carnegy (born 1942).<br />
The heir presumptive's [[heir apparent]] is his son, Charles Alexander Carnegy (born 1975).<br />
The heir presumptive's heir apparent's heir apparent is Patrick James Frederick Alexander Carnegy (born 2014).<ref>[https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!searchin/Peerage-News/Carnegy/peerage-news/vf2WbNGbK_M] Peerage News, Google Groups, 29 March 2014.</ref>

== Family tree ==
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 |GC=George Carnegie<br/>1806–1837
 |AHSC=Adm. Swynfen Carnegie<br/>1813–1879
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 |DC14E='''[[David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk|David Carnegie<br/>14th Earl of Northesk]]'''<br/>1954–2010
 |PC15E='''[[Patrick Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk|Patrick Carnegy<br/>15th Earl of Northesk]]'''<br/>{{Born in|1940}}
 |CC=Colin Carnegy<br/>{{Born in|1942}}
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 |ACLR=Alexander Carnegie<br/>Lord Rosehill<br/>1980–2001
 |Charles=Charles Alexander Carnegy<br/>{{Born in|1975}}
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==See also==
*[[Earl of Southesk]]
*[[Carnegie (disambiguation)]]

==Notes==
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==References==
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
*{{Rayment|external links=y|date=February 2012}}

==External links==
*[http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/Earl_of_Northesk Earl of Northesk] Open Rights Group

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