Earl of Carnwath was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1639 for Robert Dalzell, 2nd Lord Dalzell. His father, Sir Robert Dalzell, had been created Lord Dalzell in 1628, also in the Peerage of Scotland. The 5th Earl was attainted and the peerage forfeit in 1716, due to the Lord Carnwath's Jacobitism and support for the Fifteen, but the attainder was reversed in 1826. The Earldom and Lordship became extinct upon the death of the 13th Earl in 1941.
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