Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour

She worked in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge from 1943 to 1946 and was president for Scotland of the Girl Guides Association from 1979 to 1989.

[citation needed] Carnegy was chair of the Working Party on Professional Training in Community Education Scotland (1975–77),[4] Commissioner at Manpower Services Commission (1979–1982),[2] and a member of the Scottish Council for Tertiary Education (1979–1984).

[2] From 1980 to 1983, she was chairman of the Manpower Services Commission Committee for Scotland.

[citation needed] On 14 July 1982, she was made a life peer with the title Baroness Carnegy of Lour, of Lour in the District of Angus[5] and in 1993, an Honorary Fellow of the Scottish Community Education Council.

Carnegy was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Deputy Lieutenant for Angus from 1988 until her death.