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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.
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 ...
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.
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.
The first documented European to visit Melville Island was the British explorer, Sir William Parry, in 1819. He was forced to spend the winter at what is now called "Winter Harbour," until 1 August 1820, owing to freeze-up of the sea. [6] The island is named for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, who was First Sea Lord at the time.
Sir Robert Dundas, 1st Baronet (1761–1835), Scottish landowner and lawyer; Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771–1851), Scottish nobleman; Robert Dundas, 4th Viscount Melville, Scottish nobleman; Robert Nisbet-Hamilton, born Robert Dundas; Sir Robert Lawrence Dundas (1780–1844), British Army officer and politician
The Dundas Vault in old Lasswade Kirkyard, containing the first five Viscounts Melville The simple grave of Vice Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas, in the Dundas Vault, Old Lasswade Kirkyard. Dundas was appointed Second Naval Lord in the First Palmerston ministry in April 1857 and then First Naval Lord in the same ministry in November 1857. [5]