• Thumbnail for Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
    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...
    67 KB (6,376 words) - 11:45, 31 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Melville Monument
    and 1827 as a memorial to Scottish statesman Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. Dundas, the most prominent politician from Scotland of his period, was...
    42 KB (5,078 words) - 04:16, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Saunders Dundas
    prime minister (Viscount Palmerston) described Dundas as "a most distinguished officer". The son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville and his wife Anne...
    13 KB (1,168 words) - 04:16, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Melville Island (Northern Territory)
    King) named 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...
    7 KB (583 words) - 19:31, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Melville Peninsula
    Edward Parry, who named the peninsula (along with Melville Island) after Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville First Sea Lord of the Admirality. Since 1999...
    3 KB (404 words) - 23:21, 17 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Elizabeth Rannie
    noblewoman who was married to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and was mother to Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. Elizabeth was born in Calcutta...
    9 KB (976 words) - 17:39, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yonge–Dundas Square
    namesake of Dundas Street, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who voted to delay the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Dundas argued that...
    28 KB (3,060 words) - 16:04, 1 August 2024
  • 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...
    12 KB (1,201 words) - 16:46, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Louisa Dundas
    Jenkinson. In 1833, she married the Rev. Charles Dundas, son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. Louisa Dundas published two books for children: The little...
    3 KB (323 words) - 23:20, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Melville, Western Australia
    Melville Water was named after Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, by Governor James Stirling. The name was first used in the area for the Melville...
    3 KB (229 words) - 13:55, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
    owing to freeze-up of the sea. The island is named for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, who was First Sea Lord at the time. In the search for Franklin's...
    14 KB (1,438 words) - 11:36, 15 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Dundas
    Dundas was the second son of Robert Dundas of Arniston and Jean Grant, and the nephew of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville and War Secretary. He was commissioned...
    5 KB (422 words) - 20:33, 3 July 2024
  • RFA Robert Dundas (A204) was the lead ship of her class of coastal stores carriers of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. Launched on 28 July 1938, the Robert Dundas...
    2 KB (132 words) - 09:23, 8 July 2023
  • captain of Melville Castle from 1786 until 1792. Through the influence of his politically well connected uncle, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, he was...
    9 KB (997 words) - 04:20, 14 April 2024
  • to his son, David Dundas. The estate had belonged to the late Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville who had died in 1811. Lord Melville was his second cousin...
    4 KB (460 words) - 04:55, 8 February 2024
  • Robinson Lord Walpole William Dundas George Johnstone Hope, Naval Lord 5 October 1812: Commission. The Viscount Melville, First Lord William Domett, First...
    235 KB (21,382 words) - 16:04, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert William Hay
    From 1812 to 1824, he served as Private Secretary to Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742–1811), who was First Lord of the Admiralty, and then served...
    4 KB (293 words) - 14:14, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Archibald Cockburn
    with Lord Melville" (sister Elizabeth Rannie, the first wife of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville), daughter of David Rennie/Rannie of Melville Castle...
    5 KB (586 words) - 02:48, 19 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Scottish place names in Canada
    Mackenzie dike swarm Melville Island (named for Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville) Dundas Peninsula (part of Melville Island) Melville Peninsula Rankin...
    25 KB (1,233 words) - 17:56, 1 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for George Dundas (Royal Navy officer)
    Admiralty Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and the younger brother of First Lord of the Admiralty Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. Dundas is a peripheral...
    21 KB (2,152 words) - 17:32, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Kay (caricaturist)
    Byrne Alexander Carlyle James Donaldson Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville Alexander Gerard Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville...
    6 KB (746 words) - 21:26, 7 March 2024
  • (0.62 mi) to the east of Dundas. Dundas Island is named in honour of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, Viscount Melville and British Secretary of State...
    4 KB (276 words) - 08:21, 2 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for John Erskine of Carnock
    of Cardross (1662–1743) and his second wife, Anne Dundas (d. 1723), heiress of Sir William Dundas of Kincavel. His father made his fortune by joining...
    6 KB (727 words) - 14:53, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel
    Admiral Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, PC (25 April 1725 – 2 October 1786) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the House...
    21 KB (1,940 words) - 20:44, 1 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of governors of Edinburgh Castle
    governors ceased to be appointed after the death in 1876 of Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville. The office was revived in 1936 as an honorary title for the...
    21 KB (2,059 words) - 23:50, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chancellor of the University of St Andrews
    Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville 1811–1814 HRH Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge 1814–1851 Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville 1851–1900...
    8 KB (775 words) - 10:59, 19 January 2024
  • 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...
    27 KB (230 words) - 09:14, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clan Arbuthnott
    request. Sir Robert Arbuthnott, the direct descendant of the Laird of Arbuthnott who had been involved in the murder of sheriff Melville, was elevated...
    12 KB (1,375 words) - 02:46, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe
    Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe (category Younger sons of viscounts)
    born in Albemarle Street, London, the second son of Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe, who died as governor of Barbados in March 1735, and of Charlotte...
    38 KB (3,996 words) - 09:29, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Impeachment in the United Kingdom
    ministers of the Crown. The last impeachment was that of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville in 1806; since then, other forms of democratic scrutiny (such...
    15 KB (2,078 words) - 20:51, 28 June 2024