Correspondence of Henry Dundas and Robert Saunders Dundas 1781-1830

Dundas Robert Saunders 1771-1851 2nd Viscount Melville. Statesman

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Henry Dundas, Robert Saunders Dundas

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Henry Dundas (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville (1802). Politician, Secretary of State for Home Affairs (1791-1794), Secretary of State for War (1794-1801). Robert Saunders Dundas (1771-1851), 2nd Viscount Melville. Politician, son of Henry Dundas. From the guide to the Correspondence of Henry Dundas and Robert Saunders Dundas, 1781-1830, (The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House) ...

Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811

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Henry Dundas, the first Viscount Melville (1742-1811), statesman, was the father of Robert Saunders Dundas, the second Viscount Melville (1771-1851), also a statesman. Henry Dundas was educated at Edinburgh High School and University, before becoming solicitor-general for Scotland in 1766. He was M.P. for Midlothian 1774-1790, except for a few months in 1782, when he sat for Newtown, Isle of Wight. He was lord advocate 1775-1783, lord rector of Glasgow University 1781-1783, privy councillor, and...