Background
He was the eldest son of Sir John Carnegie, 2nd Baronet and his wife Mary Burnett, daughter of Sir Thomas Burnett, 3rd Baronet. In 1729, aged only thirteen, he succeeded his father as baronet. A year later, with the death of his cousin, the forfeited James Carnegie, 5th Earl of Southesk, he would have succeeded to that title also, but for the attainder. His guardians until his majority Andrew Fletcher, Lord Milton and Sir Alexander Ramsay of Balmain sent Carnegie to the University of Glasgow for education.
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