(1701 - 67), s. and h. of 2nd E. of Hyndford; sty. Ld. Carmichael 1710 - 37 when suc. fa. as 3rd E.; m. 1 1732 Elizabeth Shovell (d. 1750), wid. of 1st B. Romney, 2 1756 Jean Vigor; army officer, capt. 3 Ft. 1733; env. to Prussia 1741 and Russia 1744 - 9; amb. at Vienna 1752 - 64; KT 1742.
1720 Padua (by Dec.)
1728 - 9 Rome (Nov. - 23 Dec. 1728), Naples (Dec. 1728 - Jan. 1729), Rome (18 Jan. - 27 Mar.)
Lord Carmichael was in Padua in December 1720 with his tutor, Theocharis Dadichi;1 he had been in Hanover in 1719 and Berlin in the spring of 1720.2
His second visit to Italy was paid while on leave from the garrison at Minorca in 1728. He arrived in Rome with two other officers, Hering and Abercromby, and after spending a month in the city, shortly before Christmas 1728, they left for Naples with a Mr Brickenden; on 18 January Carmichael, Hering and Abercromby returned to Rome from Naples with 'the poet Jacobs' [Hildebrand]. Carmichael and Hering left Rome to return to Mahon, Minorca, on 27 March 1729.3
1. Brown 1672. 2. HMC Polwarth, 2:250, 506. 3. SP 85/16, ff.473, 482, 496, 519 (Walton, 25 Nov., 23 Dec. 1728; 20 Jan., 31 Mar. 1729).