Letters from Sir John Shore Bart., Governor-General of Bengal, to The Right Hon[ora]ble Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India : manuscript, 1793-1798.

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Letters from Sir John Shore Bart., Governor-General of Bengal, to The Right Hon[ora]ble Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India : manuscript, 1793-1798.

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Bound collection of private letters from John Shore Teignmouth, Governor General of India, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, dated 10 January 1793 to 17 October 1798.

1 v. (385 leaves) : paper ; 34 cm.

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Teignmouth, John Shore, Baron, 1751-1834

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Governor general of India (1793-1798). From the description of Correspondence, 1793-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122589682 ...

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...