Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas George Carnegie (4 January 1870–27 February 1937) was a British politician.
He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel George Carnegie, 9th Earl of Northesk and Elizabeth Georgina Frances Elliot.
Carnegie was commissioned into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in 1888. He resigned his commission as a Major in 1905. From 1917 to 1918 he served with the Labour Corps and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel.
He married Margaret Jean Johnstone-Douglas, daughter of Arthur Henry Johnstone-Douglas and Jane Maitland Stewart, on 26 April 1894 and had four children:
- John Douglas Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk (16 February 1895–1975)
- David Alexander Carnegie (15 January 1897–2 April 1917)
- Lady Jean Douglas Carnegie (31 August 1899)
- Margaret Carnegie (7 June 1901–19 April 1946)
Famous quotes containing the words douglas and/or carnegie:
“I want to die while you love me,
And never, never see
The glory of this perfect day
Grow dim, or cease to be!”
—Georgia Douglas Johnson (1886–1966)
“We accept and welcome ... as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”
—Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919)