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General Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville GCB (25 February 1801 – 1 February 1876) [1] was a senior British Army officer and peer. Military career. The eldest son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, and his wife Anne, Dundas joined the Army as a lieutenant in the 3rd (or Scots) Guards in 1819. [2] .
Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville (1801–1876) son of 2nd Viscount. Robert Dundas, 4th Viscount Melville (1803–1886) son of 2nd Viscount and brother of the 3rd. Robert Dundas, 5th Viscount Melville (1835–1904) nephew of 2nd Viscount. Charles Saunders Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville (1843–1926) brother of 5th Viscount.
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, PC, FRSE (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811), styled as Lord Melville from 1802, was the trusted lieutenant of British prime minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18th century. Dundas was instrumental in the encouragement of the Scottish Enlightenment, [2] in ...
Biography. Dundas’s grandfather, Henry Dundas†, one of Pitt’s leading ministers and his Scottish manager, was created Viscount Melville in 1802. His eldest son, Robert Saunders Dundas, inherited the title in 1811, and began his long tenure as first lord of the admiralty the following year.
DUNDAS, Henry (1742-1811), of Melville Castle, Edinburgh. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986. Available from Boydell and Brewer.
19 de set. de 2019 · Solving a provenance puzzle: papers of Henry and Robert Dundas, Viscounts Melville Three volumes amongst the miscellaneous material in the India Office Records’ Political and Secret Department records contain fair copies of letters written 1807-12 by Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control.
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. 28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811. As a lawyer, Dundas fought in Scottish courts for the freedom of a slave, and forever changed the law of slavery in Scotland. As a politician, he consistently and publicly condemned slavery and the slave trade as being contrary to justice and humanity.
