Patrick Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk

Patrick Charles Carnegy, 15th Earl of Northesk (born 23 September 1940 ), is a British hereditary peer, journalist and scholar.

Early life and education Northesk is the son of The Reverend Canon Patrick Charles Alexander Carnegy and Joyce Eleanor Townsley. He is an agnatic descendant of David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk, and inherited the earldom on the deaths of both his eighth cousin twice removed, Alexander Robert Macrae Carnegie, in 2001; and his eighth cousin once removed, David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, on 28 March 2010.

Northesk was educated at Rugby School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, matriculating in 1960.

Career Northesk was on the staff of the The Times Educational Supplement from 1964 to 1988, From 1978 to 1988 he was Music Books Editor at Faber and Faber Ltd and the first assessment of the Ring on DVD for CD Review (2008) Radio 3's CD Review. For television he contributed to BBC 2's documentary film Wagner in the Great Composers series (1998).

Carnegy was Course Director of the Bayreuth International Youth Festival from 1968 Other publications include reviews and articles on German literature, music, opera (especially Wagner) and theatre for The Times Literary and Educational Supplements, the London Review of Books, The Spectator, The Musical Times, and other journals.

Marriage

Lord Northesk lived with his wife, the late soprano Jill Gomez, in Cambridgeshire. They had no children.

The heir presumptive to the earldom is Lord Northesk's younger brother, Colin David Carnegy (born 1942).