The title Earl of Northesk was created in 1662 for John Carnegie in the Peerage of Scotland. Carnegie had in 1647 been created Earl of Ethie and Lord Lour, but he relinquished that title in exchange for the earldom of Northesk in 1662. For the purposes of precedence and seniority, the earldom of Northesk is treated as having been created in 1647, the date of the creation of the earldom of Ethie. The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. ... Precedence is a simple ordering, based on either importance or sequence. ...
The Earl of Northesk also holds the titles of Lord Rosehill and Lord Eglismauldie, both in the Peerage of Scotland.
The family seat is Ethie Castle, near Arbroath, Scotland. The ruined Arbroath Abbey, build from local red sandstone. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country or nation and former independent kingdom of northwest Europe, and one of the four constituent parts of the United Kingdom. ...
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