John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk
John Douglas Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk inherited the earldom in 1963.
Carnegie was born the son of Lt.-Col. Hon. Douglas Carnegie and Margaret Jean Johnstone-Douglas on 16 February 1895. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and King’s College, Cambridge, and served in World War I of 1914–1918, Captain, 95th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.
Carnegie married Dorothy May Campion, daughter of Colonel Sir William Robert Campion and Katherine Mary Byron, on 20 July 1920. They had four children:
In 1963, Carnegie inherited the earldom from his first cousin David Carnegie, 11th Earl of Northesk, who had died childless.
