• 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...
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    Robert Dundas of Arniston (6 June 1758 – 17 June 1819) was a Scottish judge. Dundas served as Solicitor General for Scotland between 1784 and 1789 and...
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    Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger, FRSE (18 July 1713 – 13 December 1787) was a Scottish judge. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1742...
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  • Robert Dundas may refer to: Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston (1650–1726), Scottish judge and politician Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder (1685–1753), his...
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    Dundas, who was the fourth son of Robert Dundas, of Arniston, the elder, declined an earldom in 1809. He was succeeded by his son, the second Viscount...
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  • Robert Dundas, of Arniston, the elder (1685–1753), Scottish judge Robert Dundas, of Arniston, the younger (1713–1787), Scottish judge Robert Dundas of...
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  • Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston (1650–1726) was a Scottish politician and ordinary lord of session. He was the eldest son of Sir James Dundas, Lord Arniston...
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    for Robert Dundas, of Arniston, the elder, the Lord President of the Court of Session. The western third of the house was added by John Adam, son of William...
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  • >1708: Robert Bennet 18th-century 1698 to >1708: Robert Bennet 1712 to 1721: Sir David Dalrymple 1721 to 1722: Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder 1722...
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  • James Dundas, Lord Arniston (1620–1679) was a Scottish politician and judge. He served as a shire commissioner to the Scottish Parliament. He was son of Sir...
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    the vicinity: Arniston House (built between 1726 and 1750), designed by William Adam and completed by his son, John Adam, built for Robert Dundas, of...
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    including those of two firemen and many people were injured. Historic homes destroyed included that of Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder and George Heriot...
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    William Dundas (1762 – 14 November 1845) was a Scottish politician. The son of Robert Dundas, of Arniston, the younger, he became a barrister at Lincoln's...
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  • Tinwald. He was also a first cousin of John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675–1732) and Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder, and uncle to James Erskine, Lord...
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    James Bannatine (category Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland)
    to the family of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston and taught Robert Dundas, of Arniston, the elder around 1695 to 1700. He was licensed to preach in the Church...
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    mother was the third daughter of Rt. Hon. Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session, and Anne Gordon (a daughter of Sir William...
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    The (Lord) Rector of the University of Glasgow is one of the most senior posts within the institution, elected every three years by students. The theoretical...
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  • 1753 in Scotland (category Years of the 18th century in Scotland)
    Robert Dundas of Arniston, the elder, Lord President of the Court of Session 1748–53 (born 1685) 27 September – Sir John Anstruther, 1st Baronet, of Anstruther...
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    children of Dalrymple of Cousland and then to Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder. He was licensed to preach as a Church of Scotland minister by the Presbytery...
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    principally at Dundee, and married Henrietta, daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session on 6 June 1777. It would seem that his...
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    1685 in Scotland (category Years of the 17th century in Scotland)
    and politician (died 1747) 9 December – Robert Dundas of Arniston, the Elder, Lord President of the Court of Session 1748–53 (died 1753) 26 June – Richard...
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    robes of office. The Faculty of Advocates included in their minutes a eulogy on Pringle, written by Sir Robert Dundas of Arniston, then dean of faculty...
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    William Grant, Lord Prestongrange (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies)
    married Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger, the second lord president of that name; and Christian, who died unmarried in 1761. On the death of Janet...
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    mother was Anne, fourth daughter of the Right Honourable Lord President Dundas of Arniston, sister to Henry Dundas, the first Viscount Melville, and sister-in-law...
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    Charles Hope, Lord Granton (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies)
    in the room of Robert Dundas of Arniston. Shortly afterwards he was presented with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, together with a piece of plate...
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    Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
    to Robert, a customs collector of Bo'ness, Linlithgowshire, and Helen, daughter of Captain Charles Dundas RN and granddaughter of Sir James Dundas of Arniston...
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  • condemned if the jury had merely given a verdict on the point of fact. In these circumstances, his counsel, Robert Dundas of Arniston, told the jury that...
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    1650–1716). The fifth of nine children, he had seven sisters; Jean (ca 1678-?) and Margaret both married, while little is known of the others. His elder brother...
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    John Lockhart-Ross (category Royal Navy personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
    June 1790. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Dundas of Arniston, the younger, in 1762 and had a number of children. Among them was his eldest son...
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    Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Batty, Robert (1763?–1849)" . Dictionary of National...
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