W F Lindsay-Carnegie Obituary in The Gentleman's Magazine

THE  GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE  AND  HISTORICAL REVIEW.  BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

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1860.  LONDON:   JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER.

1860. W. F. Lindsay Carnegie, Esq.-Mrs. Jameson.

W. F. LINDSAY CARNEGIE, ESQ. March 13. At Kimblethmont, aged 71, William Fullarton Lindsay Carnegie, Esq., of Spynie and Baysack.

The deceased was born in 1788, entered the army at a very early age, and served in the Royal Artillery both in the West Indies and in the Peninsula. In 1813, by the death of an elder brother, (Capt. James Lindsay Carnegie, RN.,) he succeeded to the family estates; and at the close of the Peninsular war he went on half-pay. He then spent some years in foreign travel. In 1820 he married the Lady Jane Chris- tian Carnegie, daughter of the late Earl of Northesk, and soon after that event he settled on his estates in Forfarshire, where he had been constantly resident for the long period of well-nigh forty years.

Mr. Lindsay Carnegie was a man of high intellectual attainments and great force of character, and devoted to scientific pursuits. He was a Liberal in politics, and an active promoter of the principles of Free Trade at a time when Toryism was in the ascendant and Protection was the order of the day. In the position he then took up in these respects he stood almost alone in his own class; and not a few of his brother proprietors looked upon him as a man of dangerous principles. He joined the Anti-Corn-Law-League, and attended its central meetings in London, and at last he had the satisfaction of seeing his views adopted by his former opponents.

Mr. Lindsay Carnegie was a warm promoter of railways, and to his energy and enterprise was due the construction of the first locomotive lines for public traffic north of the Tweed. He was the first Chairman of the Arbroath and Forfar Railway Company, and he continued to hold the office and to guide the under- taking to the close of his life. He was also a powerful supporter of the measures for the enlargement of the Harbour of Arbroath, and his name was at the head of the many public-spirited men who undertook personal liability for the pro- motion of that important work.

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estates. He farmed very extensively, having long had in his own hands up- wards of six hundred acres of arable land, and devoted his attention to high farming in every department. He at an early period opened and worked on a large scale the valuable stone quarries on his proper- ties at Leysmill and Border; and from the use of stone planning machines, for which he took out a patent, Arbroath pavement is now famous in every quarter of the globe.

The deceased was ever ready to appreciate talent and merit wherever he found them. Himself a man of high and ancient lineage, for he was the representative in the female line of the great Earls of Crau- ford and Lindsay, and the representative in the male line of the Fullartons of Fullarton,-he ever regarded rank as but the "guinea stamp." Many a talented man who came in contact with him and benefitted from his encouragement and kindness, has acknowledged with gratitude how ready he always was to give them a helping hand whenever his means or his influence admitted of it.

Mr. Carnegie was for some years Convener of the County, but resigned the office when he found his health failing; he was afterwards appointed Vice-Lieu- tenant for Forfarshire. He is succeeded in his estates by his eldest surviving son, Captain Henry Lindsay Carnegie, late of the Bengal Engineers, who, after greatly distinguishing himself in the late war in India, having been twice wounded, the last time dangerously, returned to this country some time since for the restoration of his health.