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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] .
The first five viscounts (including Henry Dundas) are buried in a simple vault (gated but unlocked) in Old Lasswade Kirkyard. The 6th Viscount Melville, Charles Saunders Dundas, lies opposite his wife, Mary Hamilton Dundas, in the small north cemetery in Lasswade, adjacent to the old kirkyard. Their son, the 7th Viscount merely appears as a ...
Being the only other member of the cabinet left in the House on the promotion of William Wyndham Grenville * to the Lords, Dundas was Pitt’s right-hand man in debate in the Parliament of 1790. On 14 Dec. he justified the convention reached with Spain after an unparalleled display of naval force.
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.
Der Titel wurde am 24. Dezember 1802 für den bekannten Rechtsanwalt und Politiker Henry Dundas geschaffen. [1] . Dieser war Innen- und Kriegsminister in verschiedenen Kabinetten gewesen. Später wurde er dann Erster Lord der Admiralität. Eine Earlswürde lehnte er 1809 ab. Nachgeordnete Titel.
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.
2. Aug. 2014 · Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville – no-one stands higher in Edinburgh. He’s the man I walk past every day but never get to see up close. That’s because he’s 140 feet up in St Andrew Square – easily the tallest statue in Edinburgh.
