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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.
24 de abr. de 2024 · Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (born April 28, 1742, Arniston, Midlothian, Scotland—died May 28, 1811, Edinburgh) was a British careerist politician who held various ministerial offices under William Pitt the Younger and whose adroit control of Scottish politics
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
11 de jun. de 2020 · Henry Dundas was a Scottish lawyer and politician who delayed the abolition of slavery in the British empire by 15 years. He is now the target of calls to rename or remove his statues in Toronto and Edinburgh due to his racist legacy.
- National Post Staff
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.
- Stephen Mullen
- 2021
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. Report an error Editorial standards and...
15 de set. de 2021 · Dundas – the most powerful Scot in the British Government at the end of the eighteenth century – was a man known by many names, including the Uncrowned King of Scotland. He was the Lord Advocate, an MP for Edinburgh and Midlothian, and the First Lord of the Admiralty. In 1802, he was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Melville and Baron Dunira.
This article has argued that allegations that Henry Dundas was solely responsible for the enslavement of more than half a million Africans, as asserted on the Dundas plaque in Edinburgh, or that abolition would have been achieved sooner than 1807 without his opposition, are fundamentally mistaken.
