Elizabeth Patricia Carnegy of Lour, Baroness Carnegy of Lour FRSA, DL (28 April 1925 – 9 November 2010)[1] was a Scottish farmer and academic.
The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Ughtred Elliott Carnegy of Lour and Violet Carnegy, she was educated at Downham School in Essex. Carnegy worked in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge from 1943-46 and was President for Scotland of the Girl Guides Association from 1979 to 1989. A former member of the Visiting Committee Noranside Borstal Institution, she was also member of the Council and Finance Committee of Open University from 1984-96 and member of the court of the St Andrews University from 1991-96. From 1989, she was an honorary member of the Scottish Library Association.
Carnegy was chair of the Working Party on Professional Training in Community Education Scotland between 1975 and 1977, commissioner of the Manpower Services Commission between 1979-82, as well as member of the Scottish Council for Tertiary Education between 1979-84. From 1980-83, she was chairman of the Manpower Services Commission Committee for Scotland, and from 1980-83 member of the Scottish Economic Council. In 1981, she became chair of the Scottish Council for Community Education, and in 1984 became member of the administration council of the Royal Jubilee Trust, holding both posts until 1988.
On 14 July 1982, she was made a life peer with the title Baroness Carnegy of Lour, of Lour in the District of Angus and in 1993, an Honorary Fellow of the Scottish Community Education Council. Carnegy was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Deputy Lieutenant for Angus from 1988 until her death.
She was awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Law (LLD) from the University of Dundee in 1991 and St Andrews University in 1997, and Doctor of the University by the Open University in 1998. Between 1969-84, she was Honorary Sheriff of Angus.