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Viscount Melville, of Melville in the County of Edinburgh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Origins. The title was created on 24 December 1802 ...
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, KT, PC, FRS (14 March 1771 – 10 June 1851) was a British statesman, the son of Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount. Dundas was the Member of Parliament for Hastings in 1794, Rye in 1796 and Midlothian in 1801.
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.
Aaron Chown/WPA Pool/Getty Images. Examples: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex . The highest degree of the British peerage system, a duke or duchess title is traditionally granted to a prince and his ...
In 1833, she married the Rev. Charles Dundas, son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville and Anne Dundas, Viscountess Melville. [1] [2] [3] Louisa Dundas published two books for children: The little cap : Or, The lost heir of Sternfelden (1871) and Wrecked, Not Lost: or, The Pilot and his Companions (1872). [4]
The Viscount Melville: 1802 Robert Dundas, 10th Viscount Melville United Kingdom Max Dundas: 35 The Viscount Sidmouth: 1805 Jeremy Francis Addington, 8th Viscount Sidmouth United Kingdom John Addington: 36 The Viscount Gort: 1816 [Notes 3] Foley Robert Standish Prendergast Vereker, 9th Viscount Gort Ireland Robert Vereker: 37 The Viscount ...
created Baron Lyttelton of Aldershot for life on 19 April 2000 Viscount Simonds [448] 18 October 1954: Simonds: extinct 28 June 1971: also Baron Simonds for life and Baron Simonds: Viscount Kilmuir [449] 19 October 1954: Maxwell Fyfe: extinct 27 January 1967: created Earl of Kilmuir on 20 July 1962 Viscount Malvern [450] 18 March 1955: Huggins ...
The column is topped by Robert Forrest's statue of Viscount Melville. Robert Forrest (27 November 1790 – 29 December 1852) was a Scottish monumental sculptor, receiving many important commissions in the early 19th century. He was self-taught, beginning his working life as a mason in a stone quarry in Clydesdale. Allegedly his first patron ...