Lancelot Carnegie

Sir Lancelot D. Carnegie

Sir Lancelot Douglas Carnegie GCVO KCMG (Edinburgh, 26 December 1861 – London, 15 October 1933),[1] was a British diplomat.

He was the second son of the 9th Earl of Southesk, and the eldest son by his second marriage (1860) to Lady Susan Murray (died 1915), eldest daughter of Alexander Murray, 6th Earl of Dunmore. His matrilineal great-uncle was the diplomat and statesman Sidney Herbert, Lord Herbert of Lea.

Lancelot Carnegie attended Eton College and Oxford University. In 1887, he took on diplomatic functions in the Foreign Office. He passed through the diplomatic offices of Madrid, Petrograd, Beijing, Vienna and Paris before his last and longest assignment, in Lisbon. He was British Minister (1913-1924) and then Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Portugal from 1925 to 1928, when he reached the age limit.[2]

  1. ^ Bruno J. Navarro, Carnegie, Lancelot, International Encyclopedia of the First World War
  2. ^ Bruno J. Navarro, Carnegie, Lancelot, International Encyclopedia of the First World War