Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie (Edinburgh, 26 December 1861 – London, 15 October 1933), was a British diplomat. He was the second son of the 9th Earl of Southesk, and the eldest son by his second marriage (1860) to Lady Susan Murray (died 1915), eldest daughter of Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore. His matrilineal great-uncle was the diplomat and statesman Sidney Herbert, Lord Herbert of Lea. Lancelot Carnegie attended Eton College and Oxford University. In 1887, he took on diplomatic functions in the Foreign Office. He passed through the diplomatic offices of Madrid, Petrograd, Beijing, Vienna and Paris before his last and longest assignment, in Lisbon. He was British Minister (1913-1924) and then Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Portugal from 1925 to 1928, when he reached the age limit.

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, (1868–23 August 1961, died aged 93), daughter of Henry Ford Barclay. According to their granddaughter Lady John Kerr, Marion lost her hearing at the age of 30, but this did not stop her leading a full life. Lady Carnegie was the daughter of Henry Ford Barclay by his first wife Richenda Louisa Gurney (d. 1888) 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

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