David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk
David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk( 1675 – 14 January 1729) was a Scottish peer and politician.
He was born the son of David Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Northesk and Elizabeth Lindsay.
He was invested as a Privy Councillor of Scotland in 1698 and held the office of Sheriff of Forfar in 1702.
He held the office of Lord Commissioner of Treasury for Scotland from 1705 until 1708.
He served as a representative peer between 1708 and 1715 and was Commissioner of Trade and Manufacturers in 1711.
He married Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of James Wemyss, Lord Burntisland and Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss, on 29 January 1697 and had five children:
George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk
Admiral George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk( 1716–1792) was born the son of David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk and Lady Margaret Wemyss on 2 August 1716.
He died on 20 January 1792 at age 75.
He married Anne Melville, daughter of Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven and Elizabeth Monypenny, on 30 April 1748 and had six children:
James Carnegie (died 1707)
James Carnegie of Finavon or Findhaven( died 10 March 1707) was a member of the Parliament of Scotland.
The second son of David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk, he was infeft on 6 June 1672.
By contract of 10 February and June 1674, he married Anna Lundin, second daughter of Dame Margaret Lundin of that Ilk and Robert Maitland, brother of the Duke of Lauderdale.
Their children were: Anna Carnegie died on 3 September 1694.
Carnegie of Finavon represented Forfar from 1669 to 1674.
He was made captain of a new company in the Scots Regiment of Guards on 25 August 1674 and served at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge before resigning his commission in 1680.
He then served as commissioner for Forfarshire in 1686, from 1698 to 1702, and again from 1702 to 1707.
He died at Edinburgh and was buried in the Abbey Church.
John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk
John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk (1611–1667), was a Scottish noble who supported the Royalist cause during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
David Carnegie, 5th Earl of Northesk
David Carnegie, 5th Earl of Northesk( 11 June 1701 – 24 June 1741) was the son of David Carnegie, 4th Earl of Northesk and Lady Margaret Wemyss.
He died at the age of 40, unmarried.
He had, by Isabel Rarity, a son, Sylvester who was born on 16 January 1732, and married Margaret Peter on 9 June 1755.
David Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Northesk
David Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Northesk( 1643 – 1688) was born the son of David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk and Lady Jean Maule, daughter of Patrick Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure in November 1643.
He married Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford and Lady Margaret Hamilton, on 2 September 1669 and had two children:
William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk
Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk GCB( 19 April 1758 – 28 May 1831) was born at Bruntsfield in Edinburgh to Admiral George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk and Anne Melville.
David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk
David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk was born the son of John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk and Magdalen Haliburton before 1627.
He died on 12 December 1679.
He married Lady Jean Maule, daughter of Patrick Maule, 1st Earl of Panmure, on 19 October 1637 and had seven children:
By his third son, Patrick, he is the seventh great-grandfather of the 15th Earl of Northesk.
Patrick Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk
Patrick Charles Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk( born 23 September 1940) is a British hereditary peer, journalist and scholar.
Carnegy was educated at Rugby School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matriculating in 1960.
His books include" Faust as Musician: A Study of Thomas Mann ’s novel ‘ Doctor Faustus ’"( 1973) and" Wagner and the Art of the Theatre"( 2006, Royal Philharmonic Soc Award, Special Jury Prize George Freedley Memorial Award) which took 40 years to write.
Other publications include reviews and articles on German literature, music, opera( especially Wagner) and theatre for The Times Literary and Educational Supplements, the London Review of Books, The Spectator, Opera, The Musical Times, and other journals.
As a broadcaster he was a regular contributor in the 1970s and 1980s to BBC Radio 4’s arts magazine Kaleidoscope.
Contributions to Radio 3 have included documentaries on Thomas Mann, Kafka, the Barenboim/ Kupfer Ring at Bayreuth( 1988), and the first assessment of the Ring on DVD for CD Review( 2008) Radio 3's" CD Review".
For television he contributed to BBC 2 ’s documentary film Wagner in the Great Composers series( 1998).
In 1988 he was invited by Jeremy Isaacs to create the post of Dramaturg( literary and repertory adviser) at the Royal Opera House.
There he initiated a programme of lectures, study days and other events open to all.
He was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship( 1994 – 96).
He was a founding member of the Bayreuth International Arts Centre and served on the BBC Central Music Advisory Committee( 1986 – 89) and on the BBC General Advisory Council( 1990 – 96).
Lord Northesk is an agnatic descendant of David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk.
He inherited the earldom on the death of his eighth cousin once removed David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk on 28 March 2010.
Lord Northesk lives with his wife, soprano Jill Gomez, in Cambridgeshire.
James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk
James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk( b. before 1583 – 1669) was a Scottish nobleman.
He inherited the Earldom of Southesk from David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk.
His son, Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk, succeeded him.

Question: Which country David Carnegie, 2Nd Earl Of Northesk's father is from?
Answer: Scottish