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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.
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.
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 ...
Herman Melville (born Melvill; [a] August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella.
Anne married the future viscount on 29 August 1796, when he was an MP. He inherited the viscountcy in 1811, making her a viscountess. The couple had six children, including: Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville (1801-1876), who died unmarried; Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Richard Saunders Dundas (1802-1861), who died unmarried
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, first husband of Elizabeth Rannie. On 16 August 1765, Elizabeth Rannie and Henry Dundas were married; [4] she was 14 years old, and he was 24. Through the union, Dundas acquired the Melville castle and estate, and her fortune; [3] these represented almost all of his wealth. [5]
Raymond Melbourne Weaver (1888 – April 4, 1948) was a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University in 1916–1948, and a literary scholar best known for publishing Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic, the first full biography of American author Herman Melville (1819–1891) in 1921 and editing Melville's works.