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[[Brigadier|Brigadier-General]] '''John Carnac''' (1716 – 29 November 1800) was a British officer who served three times as [[Commander-in-Chief, India|Commander-in-Chief of India]]. The son of Capt. Peter Carnac (1665–1756), and Andrienne, née Lelonte (d. c.1762), he was baptised in London.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Educated at [[Trinity College Dublin]],<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4711 John Carnac at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref> John Carnac voyaged to [[British India|India]] as a lieutenant in the [[39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot|39th Regiment]] in 1754<ref name=odnb/> and served at [[Madras]] as secretary and aide-de-camp to the colonel of the regiment, [[John Adlercron]].<ref name=odnb/> He joined the service of the [[British East India Company|East India Company]] as [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]] in 1758 after transferring from the 39th foot.<ref name=odnb/> After his arrival in [[Bengal]] he became secretary and aide-de-camp to [[Robert Clive]], governor of Bengal, and joined him in an expedition against the Prince [[Shah Alam II|Ali Gauhar]], son of the Mughal emperor [[Alamgir II]].<ref name=odnb/><br />
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In 1761 he engaged with and defeated [[Shah Alam II]].<ref name=odnb/> He became Brigadier-General in 1764<ref name=odnb/> and participated with Clive in the negotiations with [[Shuja-ud-Daula]] and the Mughal emperor [[Shah Alam II]] in 1765.<ref name=odnb/><br />
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In 1767, Carnac resigned from the company's service in January and returned to England.<ref name=odnb/> He purchased an estate near [[Ringwood, Hampshire|Ringwood]] in [[Hampshire]] and also participated in a largely unsuccessful housing development in [[Southampton]].<ref name=odnb/> From 1768 to 1773 he served as M.P. for [[Leominster (UK Parliament constituency)|Leominster]]. In 1772 he was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27carnac%27%29| title = Library and Archive Catalogue|publisher= Royal Society|access-date =2012-03-17}}</ref><br />
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By 1773 Carnac was short of money and he returned to India as a member of the Council at [[Bombay]].<ref name=odnb/> He was dismissed from the East India Company for his involvement in the Convention of Wadgaon in 1779<ref name=odnb/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/633788/Convention-of-Wadgaon|title=Convention of Wadgaon |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref> and died at [[Mangalore]] in November 1800.<ref name=odnb/><br />
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==Family==<br />
[[File:Smith mrs carnac.jpg|thumb|Mrs. Carnac]]In 1765 John Carnac married Elizabeth Woollaston.<ref name=odnb/> Then in 1769 he married [[Elizabeth Catherine Rivett]]<ref name=odnb/> (1751–80), daughter of [[Thomas Rivett (1713-1763)]],<ref name="Wallace Collection Online">{{cite web | url = http://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=64925| title = Joshua Reynolds, Mrs Elizabeth Carnac |publisher = Wallace Collection Online |access-date =2013-09-07}}</ref> who had been an MP and Mayor of Derby. A 1775-76 portrait of Mrs. Carnac by [[Sir Joshua Reynolds]] hangs in the Wallace Collection in London;<ref name="Wallace Collection Online"/> a 1778 mezzotint engraving by [[John Raphael Smith]] after Reynolds' painting is at the Art Museum of Estonia,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://digikogu.ekm.ee/eng/fpage/search/oid-2273| title = John Raphael Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Carnac |publisher = Art Museum of Estonia Digital Collection |access-date =2013-09-07}}</ref> with a proof impression at the British Museum.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/j/john_raphael_smith,_mrs_carnac.aspx| title = John Raphael Smith, Mrs Carnac, a mezzotint after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds |publisher = British Museum|access-date =2013-09-07}}</ref><br />
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[[File:The Success hove down to the Couizer -ca. 1829-1830-.jpg|300px|thumbnail|''Success'' undergoing repairs after running aground on Carnac Reef, 1829-30]]<br />
John Carnac's last will and testament made his brother-in-law James Rivett his heir, provided that he assumed the additional name of Carnac, which he did in 1801.<ref name=odnb/> Two of James's sons became famous: Sir [[James Rivett-Carnac]], 1st Bt, became a Governor of [[Bombay Presidency]], while Admiral [[John Rivett-Carnac]] became an early explorer of Australia, where [[Carnac Island]] was named in his honor by Captain [[James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)|James Stirling]] when Rivett-Carnac was first lieutenant on {{HMS|Success|1825|6}} on the [[Swan River expedition of 1827]].<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usher/ushersct/6219.htm James Rivett] profile. Retrieved 10 March 2009.<br />
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usher/ushersct/153.htm Usher Family in Scotland: John Carnac] profile. Retrieved 10 March 2009.<br />
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usher/ushersct/152.htm Usher Family in Scotland: Elizabeth Rivett, later Carnac] profile. Retrieved 10 March 2009.<br />
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