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    Viscount Melville, of Melville in the County of Edinburgh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The title was created on 24 December 1802 for...
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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...
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    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...
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    Viscount Melville GCB (25 February 1801 – 1 February 1876) was a senior British Army officer and peer. The eldest son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville...
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    1821 and 1827 as a memorial to Scottish statesman Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. Dundas, the most prominent politician from Scotland of his period...
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    of Melville (1660–1728) For further Earls of Melville, see Earl of Leven. Melville House, built by the 1st Earl. Melville family Viscount Melville, created...
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    Viscount Melville Sound, formerly Melville Sound, is an arm of the Arctic Ocean in the Kitikmeot Region, Nunavut and the Inuvik Region, Northwest Territories...
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    unpopularity and Lord Grey retired; the home secretary, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, replaced him. Melbourne retained most Cabinet members, and his...
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  • landowner and lawyer Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville (1771–1851), Scottish nobleman Robert Dundas, 4th Viscount Melville, Scottish nobleman Robert Nisbet-Hamilton...
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    Edward Parry, who named the peninsula (along with Melville Island) after Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville First Sea Lord of the Admirality. Since 1999...
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    Eglinton Island in the west, and Byam Martin Island in the east. Across Viscount Melville Sound in the south lies Victoria Island. The island has little or...
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    who was married to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and was mother to Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. Elizabeth was born in Calcutta around...
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  • Northwest Passage. East of the sound lies Baffin Bay; to the west lies Viscount Melville Sound. Further west a traveller would enter the M'Clure Strait before...
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  • Dundas, 9th Viscount Melville (28 May 1937 – 21 July 2011) was a British Army officer and peer. The eldest son of Robert Maldred St John Melville Dundas,...
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    they returned and completed the remaining 660 km (410 mi) in 2008. Viscount Melville Soundmap1 lies to the north, and the M'Clintock Channelmap2 and Victoria...
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  • Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville is the namesake of Melville Island in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, and also Melville Island in Australia...
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  • Dundas, Viscountess Melville (formerly Huck / Huck-Saunders; died 10 September 1841) was the wife of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, and was a Lady...
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    Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, GCMG, DSO, PC (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician...
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    the sandwich. John Montagu was born in 1718, the son of Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke. His father died when John was four, leaving him as his...
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    Brendan Rendall Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, PC (15 February 1901 – 8 August 1958) was an Irish-born businessman, politician and a minister in the British...
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  • among Viscounts is: Viscounts in the Peerage of England Viscounts in the Peerage of Scotland Viscounts in the Peerage of Great Britain Viscounts in the...
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  • (MP) for Flint 1837–1841 Charles Saunders Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville (1843–1926), Viscount Melville Charles Dundas (naval officer) (1859–1924), "of Dundas"...
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    it for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, first Lord of the Admiralty, who is also commemorated by the much larger Melville Island in the Canadian Arctic...
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  • Viscount Melville, First Lord Sir George Cockburn, First Naval Lord The Hon. Sir Henry Hotham, Naval Lord Sir George Clerk, Bt, Civil Lord Viscount Castlereagh...
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    Spencer, KG, PC, DL, FRS, FSA (1 September 1758 – 10 November 1834), styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783, was a British Whig politician. He served as...
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    is polar ice which has flowed down the M'Clintock Channel from the Viscount Melville Sound. Large-scale breakup of the ice in the strait begins by late...
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    The bay was named after Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, (1771 - 1851) head of the Admiralty. Melville Bay is delimited by Cape York in the northeast...
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    Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, GCSI, GBE, CMG, PC, JP (24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was...
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    the ice for three winters near Banks Island, at the western end of Viscount Melville Sound. Finally McClure and his crew—who were by that time dying of...
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    Search Premier. Taylor, Mitch (1995). "Grizzly bear sightings in Viscount Melville Sound". Polar Bears: Proceedings of the Eleventh Working Meeting of...
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