Henry Dundas, Lord Melville manuscript material : 1 item, [ca. 1780's-1790's?]

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Henry Dundas, Lord Melville manuscript material : 1 item, [ca. 1780's-1790's?]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/769456464

ยท To "My Dear Sir : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Mar [no year] : (MISC 3561) : from George Square : begins, "I have this day called over your business with the President, and with his concurrence have wrote to Mr. Hume to come to town ..."

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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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...