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The latter was succeeded by his nephew, the ninth Viscount, the eldest son of the Honourable Robert Maldred St John Melville Dundas, second son of the seventh Viscount. As of 2014 [update] the titles are held by the ninth Viscount's eldest son, the tenth Viscount, who succeeded in 2011.
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.
He was born in Edinburgh on 14 March 1771, the only son of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his first wife, the former Elizabeth Rannie (1751–1843). Educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, he went on a continental tour in 1786 with his tutor John Bruce. He enrolled at Göttingen University. [1]
St John: extant: also Viscount St John from 1751 Viscount Wilton: 19 October 1714: Brydges: dormant 1789: subsidiary title of the Earl of Carnarvon; created Duke of Chandos in 1789 Viscount Sunbury [105] 19 October 1714: Montagu: extinct 1715: subsidiary title of the Earl of Halifax: Viscount Tadcaster [106] 1714: O'Brien: forfeit 1741 ...
The title Lord Melville, of Monymaill, was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1616 for Robert Melville, an Extraordinary Lord of Session under the judicial title Lord Murdochairnie, with remainder to his elder brother, John Melville. He was succeeded by his son, Robert, the second Lord.
The Barnards travelled to the Cape in March 1797, Lady Anne remaining there until January 1802. [3]Her letters written to Melville, then secretary for war and the colonies, and her diaries of travels into the interior have become an important source of information about the people, events and social life of the time.
Robert Dundas of Arniston, the elder, 2nd Lord Arniston (1685–1753) was a Scottish lawyer, and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1722 to 1737. In 1728 he reintroduced into Scottish juries the possible verdicts of guilty or not guilty as against proven or not proven.
John Melville, Landscape (1937), watercolour and conte chalk on paper. John William Melville (25 August 1902 – 8 December 1986) was a self-taught British Surrealist painter. [1] [2] He is described by Michel Remy in his book Surrealism in Britain as one of the "harbingers of surrealism" in Great Britain. [3]