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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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 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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John David Clotworthy Whyte-Melville Foster Skeffington, 14th Viscount Massereene and 7th Viscount Ferrard (3 June 1940 – 13 November 2024) was a British...
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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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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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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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Melville in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Melville may refer to: Cape Melville (South Shetland Islands) Melville Peak, King George Island Melville...
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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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(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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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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Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, (24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a senior British Conservative...
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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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Duff Cooper (redirect from Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich of Aldwick)
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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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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Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount Lee of Fareham, (8 November 1868 – 21 July 1947), was an English soldier, diplomat, politician, philanthropist and patron...
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John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent (category Viscounts St Vincent)
hardship of superannuated seamen. He later withdrew the proposal as Viscount Melville promised that the matter would be addressed by the Admiralty Board...
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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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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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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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at Haddington, where he formed a friendship with Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, which only ended with their lives. From Haddington he was removed...
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Brendan Bracken (redirect from Brendan Rendall Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken)
Brendan Rendall Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, PC (15 February 1901 – 8 August 1958) was an Irish-born businessman, politician and a Minister of Information...
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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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Sydney suburb of Dundas, which was in turn named for Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, who was British Home Secretary 1791–94. It was located in the northern...
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world, and Canada's 27th largest island. The island is located in Viscount Melville Sound, with M'Clintock Channel to the east. It lies just off Victoria...
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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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Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, (13 March 1764 – 17 July 1845), known as Viscount Howick between 1806 and 1807, was a British Whig politician who was Prime...
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