Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk

Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk (b. before 1649–1688) was a Scottish nobleman.

[1] Commissioned as a captain in Louis XIV's Scottish Guards at Chantilly, Oise, France in 1659,[1] he was later a colonel in the Forfarshire militia.

[1] In 1666 he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for wounding George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow in a duel.

[1] He inherited the earldom from James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk in 1669.

[1] King James VII of Scotland granted a charter for an area of moorland to the west of Kinnaird, Angus and Farnell, Angus called Monrommon to Carnegie.