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.[2] From 1980 to 1983, she was a member of the Scottish Economic Council.[2] 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.[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. She was awarded an Hon. LLD from the University of Dundee in 1991, and from St Andrews University in 1997 as well as Doctor of the Open University in 1998. Between 1969 and 1984, she was Honorary Sheriff of Angus.[2]
Coat of arms of Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour
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Or an Eagle displayed Azure beaked and membered Sable within a Bordure Gules
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Dexter: A Leopard proper having a Collar charged with three Torteaux; Sinister: A Greyhound proper having a Collar Gules charged with three Escallops Argent
