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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]
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 ...
The Viscount Melville: Robert Dundas: 26 Mar 1971 3 Mar 1976: Con. [231] The Viscount Sidmouth: John Addington 7 Feb 1976 26 May 1976: XB [232] The Viscount Exmouth: Paul Pellew [j] 2 Dec 1970 8 Feb 1972: XB [233] The Viscount Hutchinson: is the qualifying title for the Earl of Donoughmore. The Viscount Clancarty: is the senior qualifying title ...
John Thornton was born on 18 December 1786. He was the son of Alexander Leslie-Melville, 7th Earl of Leven and the former Jane Thornton (1757–1818). His siblings included the Hon. William Leslie-Melville, the Hon. and Rev. Robert Leslie-Melville, the Hon. Alexander Leslie-Melville of Branston Hall, Lady Lucy Leslie-Melville (wife of Henry Smith), Lady Jane Leslie-Melville (wife of Francis ...
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 ...
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.