Background
The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Ughtred Elliott Carnegy of Lour, and his wife, Violet, Elizabeth Carnegy was educated at Downham School in Essex.
politician Member of the House of Lords
The daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Ughtred Elliott Carnegy of Lour, and his wife, Violet, Elizabeth Carnegy was educated at Downham School in Essex.
University of Street Andrews.
She worked in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge from 1943-1946 and was President for Scotland of the Girl Guides Association from 1979-1989. From 1980-1983, she was chairman of the Manpower Services Commission Committee for Scotland. On 14 July 1982, she was made a life peer with the title Baroness Carnegy of Lour, of Lour in the District of Angus and in 1993, an Honorary Fellow of the Scottish Community Education Council.
Carnegy was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts) and a Deputy Lieutenant for Angus from 1988 until her death.
She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Dundee in 1991, and from Street Andrews University in 1997 as well as Doctor of the Open University in 1998.
Between 1969-1984, she was Honorary Sheriff of Angus.
She was a member of the Council and Finance Committee of Open University from 1984-1996. She was a member of the court of the Street Andrews University from 1991-1996. Beginning in 1989, she was an honorary member of the Scottish Library Association.
Carnegy was chair of the Working Party on Professional Training in Community Education Scotland (1975-1977), Commissioner at Manpower Services Commission (1979-1982), and a member of the Scottish Council for Tertiary Education(1979-1984).
From 1980-1983, she was a member of the Scottish Economic Council. In 1981, she became chair of the Scottish Council for Community Education, and in 1984 became a member of the administration council of the Royal Jubilee Trust, holding both posts until 1988.