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Francis Anthony Armstrong Carnwath CBE (26 May 1940 – 26 June 2020) [1] was a British banker and chairman of many arts and heritage organisations. Biography.
Carnwath (Gaelic: A' Chathair Nuadh; English: "New Fort") is a moorland village on the southern edge of the Pentland Hills of South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The village lies about 30 mi (50 km) south of both Edinburgh and Glasgow .
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The title Earl of Carnwath is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created together with the subsidiary title of Lord Dalzell and Liberton, on 21 April 1639 for Robert Dalzell, 2nd Lord Dalzell. His father, Sir Robert Dalzell , had been raised to the Peerage as a Lord of Parliament when he was created Lord Dalzell on 18 September 1628, also in ...
Thomas Somerville, 1st Lord Somerville, (d. 1434), was a Lord of the Parliament of Scotland.. In 1423 Thomas Somerville, as Lord of Carnwath, came to London as an ambassador to treat for the release of James I of Scotland, who had been captive in England for many years.
Carnwath was the son of Robert Dalzell (1738−1788) (himself the son of Robert Dalzell, 5th Earl of Carnwath) and Elizabeth Acklom.He was married three times. [2] He married, firstly, Jane Parkes, daughter of Samuel Parkes, on 23 September 1789.
On Lord Carnwath's death on 7 June 1702, the line of the first Earl became extinct. The titles were therefore able to pass by virtue of the special remainder through collateral succession to Lord Carnwath's second cousin once removed , Sir Robert Dalzell, 3rd Baronet , the senior heir of the first Lord Dalzell . [ 2 ]
He succeeded to his father's titles upon the latter's death in 1867. In January 1873, it was reported that fourteen years of age Lord Carnwath was the youngest Earl in Britain. He died 13 March 1873 of measles at Harrow where he was a student. He was succeeded in his titles by his father's younger brother General Arthur Dalzell.