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Dundas, Henry, Viscount Melville

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A junior member of the above family; trained for the bar; rose to be Lord Advocate for Scotland and M.P. for the county of Edinburgh; opposed at first to Pitt, he became at last his ablest coadjutor in Parliament, and did important services in con nection with the military and naval defences of the country; his power was sovereign in Scotland; his statue, mounted on a lofty column, adorns one of the principal squares of the New Town of Edinburgh (1741-1811).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Dundas, Henry, Viscount Melville'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/dundas-henry-viscount-melville.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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