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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.
11 de jun. de 2020 · Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville PC and Baron Dunira (28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811) was a Scottish lawyer and politician. Photo by Wikimedia Commons. Henry Dundas is the latest target...
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24 de mai. de 2024 · Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville was a British careerist politician who held various ministerial offices under William Pitt the Younger and whose adroit control of Scottish politics earned him the nickname “King Harry the Ninth.”
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Learn about the life and career of Henry Dundas, a prominent Scottish politician and advocate who was known as 'uncrowned king of Scotland'. Find his birth, marriage and death records, as well as his will and the Melville Monument.
Henry Dundas helped to move Britain toward the ultimate goal of abolition of the slave trade and slavery. 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 beingcontrary to justice ...
20 de ago. de 2018 · A statue of Scottish politician Henry Dundas, who helped delay Britain's abolition of slavery by 15 years, is under greater scrutiny in Edinburgh.
Henry Dundas, first viscount Melville (1742–1811), lord advocate in Scotland, MP for Edinburgh and Midlothian, first lord of the admiralty, home secretary and the first secretary of state for war, was one of the most powerful politicians in the eighteenth-century British parliament.
