Lancelot Carnegie


Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie , sometime British Minister and then Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Portugal in 1925, was the second son of the 9th Earl of Southesk, and the eldest son by his second marriage to Lady Susan Murray, eldest daughter of Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore. His matrilineal great-uncle was the diplomat and statesman Sidney Herbert, Lord Herbert of Lea.

Honours

In 1924 he was appointed to the Privy Council, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable".

Family

Carnegie was married in 1890 to Marion Alice de Gournay Barclay,, daughter of Henry Ford Barclay.
According to their granddaughter Lady John Kerr, Marion , but this did not stop her leading a full life. Lady Carnegie was the daughter of Henry Ford Barclay by his first wife the youngest daughter of Samuel Gurney, of Ham House, Upton Park, himself of the landed family Gurney of Walsingham Abbey, Norfolk.
The Carnegies had three children
  1. Mariota Susan Carnegie later Lady Gurney, married 1911, Sir Hugh Gurney, sometime British Ambassador to Brazil, and to Denmark in 1933, and in 1947, the chief secretary of the British Palestine government in 1947., son of John Gurney and his wife Isabel Blake-Humfrey ; they had issue three sons and three daughters, of whom the second married Lord John Kerr, younger brother of the 12th Marquess of Lothian and the third Richenda married the 2nd Lord Elton.
  2. Dorothea Helena Carnegie later Countess of Mansfield & Mansfield; married 1928, Mungo Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield, then Viscount Stormont. They had issue one son and two daughters.
  3. James Murray Carnegie, who married 1939, Diana Winifred Mary Renshaw, daughter of Henry Arthur Renshaw. They had issue five daughters, including twins, but two daughters died very young.

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