DUKEDOM OF FIFE

 

FAMILY NAME :

First Duff and now Carnegie.


CREATIONS:

Carnegie Family;

In the peerage of Scotland:

Lordship of Carnegie of Kinnaird and Leuchar 14 April 1616
Lordship of Kinnaird and Leuchar and the Earldom of Southesk 22 June 1633

In the peerage of the United Kingdom:

Barony of  Balinhard of  Farnell 7 December 1869.

Duff Family:

In the peerage of Great Britain:

Barony of  Braco of Kilbryde 28 July 1735,extinct 29 January 1912.

Viscountcy of  Macduff and Earldom of  Fife 26 April 1759,extinct 29 January 1912.

 

In the peerage of the United Kingdom:

 

Barony of Skene of Skene 1 October 1857,extinct 29 January 1912.

Earldom of  Fife 13 July 1885,extinct 29 January 1912.

Marquessate of Macduff and Dukedom of Fife 29 july 1889,extinct 29 January 1912.

Earldom of MacDuff and Dukedom of 24 April 1900,still exist..



James Duff, 5th Earl of Fife 1857 (Edinburgh 6 July 1814- Mar Lodge ,Aberdeenshire 7 August 1879).

Cr Baron Skene of Skene 1857.

Married.British Embassy,Paris 16 March 1846  Lady Agnes Georgiana Hay(12 May 1829-18 December 1869)

1a) Anna Elisabeth Duff, (16 August 1847-31 December 1925).Married.17 October 1865 John Villiers Stuart,5th Marquess of Townshend 1863,(10 April 1831-26 October 1899)

 

2a )Alexander Duff, 6th Earl of Fife and 1st Duke of Fife (Edinburgh 10 November 1849-Aswan, Egypt 29 January 1912)

Created Marquess of MacDuff and Duke of Fife 1889 ,created Earl of  MacDuff and Duke of Fife in favour of his daughters 1900. ; married.Buckingham Palace 27 July 1889 Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, Princess Royal of Great Britain (Marlborough House 20 February 1867-London 4 January 1931)

1b) Princess Alexandra,2nd Duchess of Fife (East Sheen Lodge, Surrey, 17 May 1891-London 26 February 1959); married.Chapel Royal, St. James' Palace 15 October 1913 Arthur, Prince of Great Britain (Windsor Castle 13 January 1883-London 12 September 1938)

1c) Alastair Arthur, Prince of Great Britain, until 1917, after which he  was  styled Earl of Macduff until he succeeded to his grandfather´s peerages  as Earl of Sussex and  Duke of Connaught and Strathearn 1942 (London 9 August 1914-Ottawa 26 April 1943)

2b) Princess Maud (East Sheen Lodge 3 April 1893-London 14 December 1945); married.Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London 12 November 1923 Charles Carnegie, Earl of Southesk (Edinburgh 23 September 1893-Kinnaird Castle 16 February 1992)
 

 

 3a)  Ida Luise Duff (died 29 May  1918) . Married .1st 3 June 1867 (divorced 1879) Adrian Hope.

Married. 2nd  20 September 1880 William Wilson (died 16 February 1905).

4a)   Alexina Duff (died 30 April 1882). Married. 2 July 1870 Henry Coventry (10 October 1845-13 May 1909)

5a)   Agnes Cecil  Duff,(18 May 1852-11 January 1925).Married.1st 4 October 1871 (divorced 11 July  1876) George Robert Hay(27 May 1849-10 March 1886)

 Married .2nd  5 August 1876 Herbert Flower  (died 30 December 1880)

Married.3rd 4 July 1882 Alfred Cooper (1838-3 March 1908)

FAMILY OF CARNEGIE

CHARLES Noel Carnegie,6th Earl of Southesk 1905  (Piccadilly 20 March 1854 -  Kinnaird Castle 10 November 1941).

Married .1 August 1891  St Peters ,London Ethel Bannerman (died 10 December 1947)

 

1a)  Katherine Carnegie ,(born 12 June 1892 ). Married.18 June 1917 (divorced 1940)Arthur Bosanquet (died 30  September 1971).

 

2a)    Charles Carnegie, 7th Earl of Southesk  (Edinburgh 23 September 1893-Kinnaird Castle 16 February 1992).  married.Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, London 12 November 1923  Princess Maud  Duff of Great Britain (East Sheen Lodge 3 April 1893-London 14 December 1945)

1b) James Carnegie, 3d Duke of Fife (born.London 23 September 1929); married.Perth 1 September 1956 (divorced 1966) Honourable Caroline Dewar (born.Bardowie Castle 12 February 1934)
 

 

1c) Alexandra Clare (born.London 20 June 1959); married.London 11 May 2001 Mark Fleming Etherington
 
 

1d) Amelia Mary Carnegie Etherington, born.24 December 2001

 


 

2c) David Charles Carnegie, Earl of Southesk (born.London 3 March 1961); married.London 16 July 1987 Caroline Anne Bunting (born.Windsor 13 November 1961)
 
 

1d) Charles Duff Carnegie, Lord Carnegie (born.Edinburgh 8 October 1989)

2d) Honourable George William Carnegie (born.Edinburgh 23 March 1991)

3d) Honourable  Hugh Alexander Carnegie (born.Dundee 10 June 1993)
 
 
 


3a)  Alexander Carnegie(22 December 1894-1989). Married.1st  23 May 1919 his first cousin  Susanne Ottilie von Rodakowski (died 18 January 1968)  

Married.2nd 5 August  1969 Cynthia Charrington .

 

4a)    Elisabeth Carnegie, (4 March 1899-23 June 1996). Married.28 December 1932 Sir Edward Conolly Smith(died 1985).

5a)  James Carnegie ,(26 September 1910-14 January 1996).Married. 26 February 1935 Claudia Blackburn.