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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 minister William Pitt and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the late 18th century.
26 de mar. de 2024 · Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (born April 28, 1742, Arniston, Midlothian, Scotland—died May 28, 1811, Edinburgh) was a British careerist politician who held various ministerial offices under William Pitt the Younger and whose adroit control of Scottish politics
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Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville. 28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811. As a lawyer, Dundas fought in Scottish courts for the freedom of a slave, and forever changed the law of slavery in Scotland. As a politician, he consistently and publicly condemned slavery and the slave trade as being contrary to justice and humanity.
14 de ago. de 2018 · 16 min read. ·. Aug 14, 2018. 1. It is remarkable how history has largely forgotten about Henry Dundas, the First Viscount Melville. After all, the New Town area of Edinburgh is dominated...
Biography. Dundas’s grandfather, Henry Dundas†, one of Pitt’s leading ministers and his Scottish manager, was created Viscount Melville in 1802. His eldest son, Robert Saunders Dundas, inherited the title in 1811, and began his long tenure as first lord of the admiralty the following year.
15 de sept. de 2021 · Dundas began his career as a lawyer – in a landmark case he successfully defended Joseph Knight, a formerly enslaved African man brought from Jamaica, from an attempt by the former enslaver John Wedderburn to keep him in perpetual servitude in Scotland. Henry Dundas (1742–1811), 1st Viscount Melville, Statesman 1770.
