Kinloch had spent time in France during the French Revolution and this coloured his political views. He inherited a sugar plantation in Jamaica from his uncle but soon sold it, and in later years he was a prominent anti-slavery campaigner. His views on Parliamentary reform once saw him branded an outlaw and he was forced to flee to France. He returned to be elected as the MP for Dundee but died a couple of months later.
Carnoustie House passed to Kinloch’s daughter, Cecilia, one of eight children, who in turn passed it to her niece, Helen Lingard-Guthrie. The house and grounds were bought by the local council in the first half of the 20th Century, but the house was destroyed by fire in the 1950s and demolished in the 1980s.
Carnoustie House Grounds is now used as a public park. Part of the land is occupied by Woodlands Primary School and Woodlands Caravan Park.
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The Carnoustie Green Circular was funded by Seagreen Wind Energy and created by the Carnoustie Community Development Trust.