Family and Education
b. c. 1679, 1st s. of John Carnegie of Boysack by Jean, da. of David Fotheringham, MP[S], of Powrie, Forfar. educ. Aberdeen Univ. (Marischal Coll.) 1696–8, Leyden 1700, aged 20; adv. 1703. m. 6 Nov. 1707, Margaret, da. of James Skene of Grange and Kirkcaldy, Fife, 2s. suc. fa. by 1683. Scots Peerage ed. Paul, vi. 495–6; Recs. Marischal Coll. and Univ. of Aberdeen (New Spalding Club), ii. 272–3; Mems. Fam. of Skene (New Spalding Club), 53–54; Scot. Rec. Soc. lxxvi. 32; viii. 67; Album Studiosorum Academiciae Lugduno Batavae, ed. Du Rieu, 758.
Offices Held
Jt. curator, fac. adv. lib. [S] 1708–?1714.
Burgess, Perth 1709, Dundee by 1713, Glasgow 1723.
Sol.-gen. [S] Mar.– Oct. 1714.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: Boysack, Inverkeillor, Forfar.
Volume
Commons 1690-1715
Web Title
CARNEGIE, John (c.1679-bef.1750)
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