Career
He died on 5 December 1878 at age 84. The University College London, Legacies of British Slave-ownership, two projects based at University College London tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modern Britain: (the Economic and Social Research Council-funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, now complete, and the Economic and Social Research Council and AHRC-funded Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833, running from 2013-2015), highlight that, William Hopetoun Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk, benefited from the compensation paid out following the abolition of slavery in 1833. According to the record, he benefited from a payment of £3,529,8s,10d, an approximate £300,000 in 2015, made by the government of United Kingdom and Great Britain as recorded by the Slave Compensation Commission and the records held at the National Archives in London.
The record containing the facts discovered can be found at, and the National Archive and the records of the Slave Compensation Commission.
Margaret Mary Adeliza Carnegie (d 27 September 1871)
Lieutenant-Colonel George John Carnegie, 9th Earl of Northesk (1 December 1843-1849 September 1891).