(1753 - 1805) of Southesk, e. s. of Sir James Carnegie; suc. fa. 1765 as 4th Bt.; educ. Eton, St Andrews and Ch.Ch. Oxf. 1771; m. 1783 Agnes Murray Elliot; MP 1784 - 90, 1796 - 1805.
1778 Florence (by 31 Mar. 1778), Rome (by 25 Apr. 1778)
1791 - 2 Venice (6 - 16 Oct. 1791), Rome (Dec.), Naples (10 Dec. 1791 - Mar. 1792), Rome (Apr. 1792), Florence, Milan (by 11 May) [England Aug. 1792]
'Chevr. Carnegie and is brother' [John b. 1757, or George, b. 1759] were reported to be in Florence by Lord Cowper on 31 March 1778.1 James Byres guided him round Rome in April 1778, depriving Colin Morison 'of the pleasure I should have had in being useful in that respect'.2 The diary of his first Italian journey is at Southesk (NRA[S] 792).
His second visit was made with his wife in 1791. They were in Venice from 6 to 16 October 1791,3 and were listed in Rome on 12 December 1791,4 though Thomas Brand mentioned in a letter of 10 December that he had already seen Lady Carnegie in Naples.5 There they spent the winter on good terms with Lord and Lady Malmesbury.6 Lady Carnegie, according to Lady Malmesbury, spoke Italian 'wonderfully', drew well and was liked by everybody. At the beginning of April the Carnegies were in Rome and Lady Carnegie, 'whose eagerness is most entertaining', followed a course of antiquities with Lady Malmesbury. From Florence on their homeward journey they were accompanied by Lady Malmesbury (whose husband had been recalled to England). They were in Milan early in May and back in England in August.
1. Dick corr.MSS. 2. Seafield MSS, GD 248/227/2 (Morison, 25 Apr. 1778). 3. ASV IS 763. 4. The World, 5 Jan. 1792. 5. Brand letters MSS E. 6. See Elliot Letters, 1:403, 404, 409, 412.