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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.
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. He was also Keeper of the Signet for Scotland from 1800.
Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine (1750–1823), Whig lord chancellor; Robert Dundas, Lord Melville (1771–1851), Tory First Lord of the Admiralty; James Abercromby, Lord Dunfermline (1776–1858), Whig Speaker of the House of Commons; Francis Horner (1778–1817), Whig backbencher; Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778–1868), Whig ...
Melville Monument in St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, erected in memory of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville in 1821. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811) Robert Saunders–Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771–1851) and son of 1st Viscount; Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville (1801–1876) son of 2nd Viscount; Robert Dundas, 4th ...
James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde [3] James Clyde, Baron Clyde, Lord Clyde of Briglands; James Latham Clyde, Lord Clyde; David Dundas, Lord Dundas; Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth; Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie, former judge on the Supreme Courts of Scotland; Charlie Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, Lord Chancellor; Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay ...
The Melville Monument is a large column in St Andrew Square, Edinburgh constructed between 1821 and 1827 as a memorial to Scottish statesman Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. Dundas, the most prominent politician from Scotland of his period, was a dominant figure in British politics during much of the late 18th century.
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 .
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] He was promoted to captain of the 83rd Regiment in 1824, major in 1826 and lieutenant-colonel in 1829.