John Carnegie (Jacobite)
For other people named John Carnegie, see John Carnegie (disambiguation).
John Carnegie (c. 1679/80 – by May 1750)[1] was a Scottish lawyer and politician from Boysack in Angus, and a Jacobite rebel.
The oldest son of John Carnegie of Boysack, he was admitted as an advocate in 1703.[2]
At the 1708 general eelection he was returned as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Forfar, the county's first representative to the House of Commons of Great Britain. He was Solicitor General for Scotland from in 1714.[2]
He took part in the Jacobite rising of 1715, for which he was expelled from the House of Commons in 1716.[2]
References
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "F"
- 1 2 3 Cruickshanks, Eveline (1970). R. Sedgwick, ed. "CARNEGIE, John (c.1680-1750), of Boysack, Forfar". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754. Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
| Parliament of Great Britain | ||
|---|---|---|
| New constituency | Member of Parliament for Forfar 1708 – 1716 |
Succeeded by James Scott |
| Legal offices | ||
| Preceded by Thomas Kennedy Sir James Stewart |
Solicitor General for Scotland 1714–1716 With: Sir James Stewart, Bt |
Succeeded by Sir James Stewart, Bt |
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