Any slaves then abiding in Scotland could thus claim their freedom.[10]. Munk was travelling to Falkland Palace to take sasine of Anne of Denmark's "morning gift". Also, fictional references were made to Sir Henry Dundas in Chapter 24 of L.A. Meyer's third book in the Jacky Faber series, which was titled "Under the Jolly Roger" as well as the former Lord Dundas in Meyer's sixth book, which was titled, "My Bonny Light Horseman". "Henry Dudas--Harry the Ninth. Lord Melville was succeeded upon his death in 1707 by his eldest survi… "The Government of Scotland under Henry Dundas and William Pitt.". [14] She later complained that Melville had spent half of the money in London for the king, rather than taking it back Scotland. Walpole was disgusted with the governor's actions, pointing out that he had given the Maroons his word that they would not be transported off the island. Charles Saunders Melville Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville: Hon. 40 km south of Norseman, later abandoned), which eventually led to the present Shire of Dundas. Lady Melville is the wife of Lord Melville. Melville said his enemies were destroying his reputation, saying that he had hindered peace, and knew all the secret dealings between France, England and Scotland. He was made Lord Raith, Monymaill and Balwearie and Viscount of Kirkcaldy at the same time, also in the Peerage of Scotland. In the United Kingdom the main branch of Melville family is the Leslie-Melville family, Earls of Leven and (since 1690) of Melville as well. Melville Jones appeared in two Doctor Who stories: as a guard in The Time Monster and the First Cyberman in Revenge of the Cybermen. During the Scottish Reformation, Robert Melville sided with the Protestant Lords of the Congregation. [12] He was Chancellor when James VI sailed to meet Anne of Denmark. By the late 20th century his reputation had been restored. [20] The motion and resolutions later failed to win the necessary support of the House of Lords, which deferred consideration until after it heard evidence and then dropped the issue altogether. He brought her letters from the Earl of Bothwell who was now the Duke of Orkney. "Paradigms and Politics: Manners, Morals and the Rise of Henry Dundas, 1770-1784," in John Dwyer, Roger A. Mason, and Alexander Murdoch (eds. [42], After this divorce Dundas was married again, to Lady Jane Hope, daughter of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, in 1793. [31], From June 1793, Dundas was appointed President of the Board of Control, generally responsible for overseeing the conduct of the East India Company and British affairs in India, a post he would hold until 1801. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Genealogy for David Alexander Leslie-Melville, Lord Balgonie (1954 - 2007) family tree on Geni, with over 200 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. [21] The Slave Trade Act was enacted in 1807, and prohibited the trade in slaves in the British Empire. MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, 1st Viscount (1742-1811), British statesman, fourth son of Robert Dundas (1685-1753), lord president of the Scottish court of session, was born at Edinburgh in 1742, and was educated at the high school and university there. At the end of the "lang siege" of the castle he was imprisoned at Holyroodhouse and at Lethington Castle (now Lennoxlove. While a student he was a member of the Edinburgh University Belles Lettres Society, participating in its meetings and gaining his first experience of public speaking at the society's debates.[5]. [47], The District of Dundas in New South Wales was named after the Colonial Secretary, Henry Dundas. [1] He married Catharine Leslie, daughter of Alexander Leslie, Lord Balgonie and Lady Margaret Leslie, on 18 January 1655. ", BBC Radio Scotland, Disposable Brides, episode 2, 6 April 2011. The Navy's paymaster, Alexander Trotter, admitted to the Commission that he had transferred public money from the Bank of England to his own credit at a private Coutts bank, investing and loaning the funds at interest from which he benefited. [11] [14] He proposed ending slavery and the slave trade together. He was friends with John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. The Master was Thackray Wetherell. Dundas is buried in a vault in Old Lasswade Kirkyard, with most of his descendants. He offers his services as an adviser to Victoria, and at first she refuses. [41], Lord Melville's first marriage was to Elizabeth Rannie, daughter of David Rannie, of Melville Castle, in 1765. Dundas Street, Hong Kong, was also named for him. In 1616 he was made Lord Melville of Monimail. Dundas was born in Edinburgh on 28 April 1742 in the house known as 'Bishop's Land' (a former lodging of the Archbishop of St. Andrews) on the Royal Mile. The motion as amended then passed 230 in favour, 85 opposed. Although Dundas was replaced as Home Secretary by the Duke of Portland in July 1794, Pitt nonetheless wished to maintain direction of the war effort in Dundas' trusted hands, and so created for him the new office of Secretary of State for War. "[24], Other historians such as David Brion Davis, Diana Paton and Stephen Tomkins argue that Dundas was privately opposed to abolition of the slave trade. He was Aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of New Zealand, from 1951 to 1952. This is a category for known metahumans of Smallville.It includes those who received their abilities through exposure to kryptonite and those who received their abilities through other means.. Aliens with innate superhuman powers can also be named as metahumans, according to the official DC Comics definition, although, they're not obviously metahumans at all. Additionally, Heneage 'Hen' Dundas, a real-life naval officer son of Thomas Dundas, appears as a younger son of Lord Melville. Ownership of slaves, however, remained legal in most of the British Empire until passage of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833. Other islands in the group, known as the Dundas Islands, were given the names Melville Island, Baron Island and Dunira Island in respect of Dundas' titles. He was a main character on ITV's Victoria. However at his death the immediate reaction was one of widespread praise from most quarters (apart from the whigs in Scotland). From about 1798 on he pleaded frequently to be allowed to resign from his offices on health grounds, but Pitt, who relied on him greatly, refused even to consider it. It was created in 1690 for the Scottish soldier and statesman George Melville, 4th Lord Melville. Lord Melville, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is present or a background character in several of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin novels. ", Wright, Esmond. 1 Early life 2 Military career 3 Parliament 4 References 5 External links He was born eldest son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville. Appointed a governor of the Bank of Scotland, he was elected chancellor of the University of St Andrews in 1814, and made a Knight of the Thistle in 1821. HMS Lord Melville (also known as HMS Melville) was a brig of the Royal Navy launched at Kingston, Ontario on 20 July 1813. Lord Melbourne, in full William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne of Kilmore, Lord Melbourne, Baron of Kilmore, Baron Melbourne of Melbourne, (born March 15, 1779, London, England—died November 24, 1848, Brocket, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire), British prime minister from July 16 to November 14, 1834, and from April 18, 1835, to August 30, 1841. view all 18 Mary Gilbert, Free Settler "Lord Melville… "In 1817, 101 convict women were transported from England to the new colony of New South Wales on board of the Lord Melville. The family gained its surname from the 1655 marriage of George Melville, Fourth Lord Melville and First Earl of Melville to Catherine Leslie a descendant of Alexander Leslie, first Earl of Leven. The amendment was adopted, 192 in favour, 125 opposed. It was not until 1807 that the House of Lords voted in favour of abolishing the trade in slaves. Melville Jones at the Internet Movie Database Mary expelled the English diplomat Thomas Randolph and Elizabeth ordered Melville's return to Scotland on 15 March 1566. She served on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812, was renamed HMS Star on 22 January 1814. Dwyer, John, and Alexander Murdoch. By 1815, she was unfit for anything but transport duties. [49], A monument to him, modeled loosely on Trajan's Column in Rome, stands in the centre of St Andrew Square, Edinburgh. Some historians [22] say that Dundas's role in the abolition of slavery has been misunderstood. He opposed her marriage to Henry, Lord Darnley and joined the rebellion called the Chaseabout Raid. Lord Melbourne (also known as Lord M to Queen Alexandrina Victoria) was the Prime Minister of England and Victoria's former private advisor. He is played by Stephen Boxer. The Entail of Leven Victoria and Lord Melbourne's relationship becomes strained after Victoria realises he … The Whigs in Canning's coalition now persuaded him tha… Genealogy profile for David Alexander Leslie-Melville, styled Lord Balgonie. "[42] Approximately a month later they were divorced. D&D Beyond In this role, Dundas was responsible for organising several British expeditions to the Caribbean to seize vulnerable French and Spanish possessions, the largest being that led by Sir Ralph Abercromy in 1795-6. [1], Robert married firstly; Katherine Adamson; secondly Mary Leslie, daughter of Andrew Leslie, Earl of Rothes; thirdly, Jean Stewart, daughter of Robert, Earl of Orkney. Vancouver originally believed it to be one island, Dundas's Island, but it was later determined that it was in fact a small archipelago. He was made Lord Raith, Monymaill and Balwearie and Viscount of Kirkcaldy at the same time, also in the Peerage of Scotland. He died in May 1811, in Edinburgh, aged 69, and was succeeded in his titles by his son from his first marriage, Robert. He argued, however, that a vote for immediate abolition would be ineffective, as it would drive the slave trade underground. The statue has proven to be controversial, because of the role Dundas played as Secretary of State for War in delaying the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade during the 1790s. He had introduced a similar motion in 1791, which was soundly defeated by MPs, with a vote of 163 opposed, 88 in favour. ", Letters and memoranda (1792-1812) of Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville and Robert Dundas, Viscount Melville (1771-1851) are held by, This page was last edited on 19 January 2021, at 08:05. Family. After holding subordinate offices under William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and Pitt, he entered the cabinet in 1791 as Secretary of State for the Home Department. Mary Amanet was a passenger aboard The Ship Lord Melville I which sailed from England on Sunday, 15 September 1816 and arrived in Sydney, NSW Australia on 24 February 1817. He anticipated, in particular, that merchants from other countries would step in to fill the gap left by the British. Earl of Melville is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. He arrived in Edinburgh and reported back to Elizabeth and Cecil on the aftermath of the murder of David Rizzio. "[39] The process ended in an acquittal. The District of Dundas was abolished in 1889 although the name still survives in the Sydney suburb of Dundas. [5] Melville worked for Regent Moray, and arranged with Sir Valentine Browne, treasurer of Berwick, for loans of money secured with pledges of Mary's jewels. 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His mission was to collect a subsidy or annuity of £4,000 which Elizabeth gave to James VI, and ask for 34 elm trees for the king's garden. Lord Melville, as First Lord of the Admiralty, is present or a background character in several of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels. The case went to Scotland's highest civil court, where Dundas led Knight's legal team, in the case of Knight v. Wedderburn..[6] Dundas was assisted by prominent members of the Scottish Enlightenment, and also Samuel Johnson, whose biographer James Boswell later wrote: "I cannot too highly praise the speech which Mr. Henry Dundas generously contributed to the cause of the sooty stranger. George Melville, 1st Earl of Melville (1636 – 20 May 1707) was a Scots aristocrat and statesman during the reigns of William and Mary. He spearheaded a vain attempt to capture the French colony of Saint-Domingue amidst the chaos of the Haitian Revolution. He was promoted to captain of the 83rd Regiment in 1824, … Charles Melville McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, was born 16 April 1913 to Henry Duncan McLaren, 2nd Baron Aberconway (1879-1953) and Christabel Mary Melville MacNaghten (1890-1974) and died 4 February 2003 inLondon, England, United Kingdom of unspecified causes. The trial attracted considerable notice because of "dislike of patronage and the Pittite ‘system’, anti‐Scottish bias, and advocacy of financial and parliamentary reform. He appears on wikipedia, as David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven.. Hilda Guilhermina Dundas: Grace Selina Marion Scully, 6th Viscountess Melville: Hon. [12] Dundas was not present for that vote, but when it was again before MPs in 1792, Dundas tabled a petition from Edinburgh residents who supported abolition. Their speeches and manner of mediation was said to have been counter-productive. Within days she confessed in a letter to Dundas, saying she was "undeserving of being your wife or the mother to your unhappy children. [17], "Two painted ceilings from Rossend Castle, Burntisland, Fife", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Melville,_1st_Lord_Melville&oldid=979906259, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 12:58. Their stories have always remained invisible - until now. He is also a supporting character in the legal drama Garrow's Law. Walpole resigned his commission, and went back to England, where he became an MP and protested in vain in the House of Commons how Balcarres had behaved in a duplicitous and dishonest way with the Maroons. He married Ann Lindsay Aymer … In 1776, Dundas acted as counsel to Joseph Knight, who had been purchased as a slave in Jamaica and was later taken to Scotland. He was baptised at the Monimail Parish Church on the 11th of the same month. His pleading in Scotland's highest court was successful, and the Court ruled: "the dominion assumed over this Negro, under the law of Jamaica, being unjust, could not be supported in this country to any extent". She never saw her children again, dying in 1843. [1] Career: Biographical Summary "John, third Lord Melville of Monimail, succeeded his father in the family estates in January 1626, and was infeft in Raith 13 March 1626.He succeeded his cousin Robert in the title in 1635. By 1900, however, historians were harsh, denouncing him as the epitome of corruption and oppression who had sold out Scotland to the English. Lord Melville may refer to: . He was portrayed as 'bookish', although a sweet and sincere man otherwise. Melville said that, while he personally supported it, he could not approve of a policy which would split the outgoing cabinet. In 1774 Dundas was returned to Parliament for Midlothian, and joined the party of Frederick North, Lord North; he was a proud Scots speaker and he soon distinguished himself by his clear and argumentative speeches. Hamish MacPherson, "Henry Dundas: The Scotsman who kept slavery going", "Henry Dundas' private papers bought for Scots archive", https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nrpb#:~:text=Scotland%2C%20Slavery%20and%20Statues%20The%20Melville%20Monument%20in,follows%20the%20debate%20over%20how%20controversial%20politician%20, "The University of Edinburgh Belles Lettres Society (1759-64) and the Rhetoric of the Novel", "Obliterating our history by removing statues is path to repeating mistakes", "The Parliamentary History of England, From the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol XXIX, (First Session of the Seventeenth Parliament; Second Session of the Seventeenth Parliament, 1791-1792), at 359. [1] He was the son of John Melville, 3rd Lord Melville of Monymaill and Anne Erskine. Lord Melville is introduced in episode 9. As a major official favourably disposed to Jack Aubrey, Lord Melville's political interest is often helpful to the captain. As a leading figure of the establishment, he is a bitter enemy of the radical hero, William Garrow. [23] Michael Fry said that Dundas's earlier success in Knight v Wedderburn was "instrumental in prohibiting not only negro slavery but also native serfdom in Scotland. He was appointed Lord Advocate in 1775. There were demonstrations against the Dundas statue during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.[4]. [32][33], Dundas also presided over a crisis in Britain's most important possession, the Colony of Jamaica. Dundas Island was named by Captain George Vancouver in Dundas' honour. He was the fourth son of Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session, by his second wife, Anne Gordon, daughter of Sir William Gordon of Invergordon. The long-time headquarters of the Royal Bank of Scotland, directly to the east, is Dundas House; construction was completed in 1774 for Sir Lawrence Dundas, a relative. In 1802 a commission of inquiry was appointed into alleged misappropriation of public funds while Dundas was treasurer of the British Navy, and produced a report in 1805. "[7][8] Arguing that "as Christianity gained ground in different nations, slavery was abolished", and appealing to the earlier ruling in Somerset v Stewart in England, Dundas said "he hoped for the honour of Scotland, that the supreme Court of this country would not be the only court that would give its sanction to so barbarous a claim. ), Fry, Michael. In 1774 Dundas was returned to Parliament for Midlothian, and joined the party of Frederick North, Lord North; he was a proud Scots speaker and he soon distinguished himself by his clear and argumentative speeches. [25][26][27][28] They maintain that when Dundas inserted the word "gradual" into the debate, he in effect postponed the discussion on the slave trade until an unspecified date in the future, and subverted the British abolitionist movement. In 1707 he succeeded his father as Earl of Melville. DUNDAS, ROBERT SAUNDERS, second Viscount Melville (1771–1851), statesman, only son of Henry Dundas, first viscount Melville [q. v.], the friend of Pitt, was born on 14 March 1771. Melville was sent to Elizabeth I of England as the rebel lords' envoy. Henry Dundas was instrumental in the encouragement of the Scottish Enlightenment,[2] in the prosecution of the war against France, and in the expansion of British influence in India. Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville GCB (25 February 1801 1 Feb 1876)1 was a British military leader. After Mary fled to England he brought jewels, clothing, and horses to her at Bolton Castle. He drank heavily. Dundas sided with Balcarres in the dispute, and turned down Walpole's requests to get the Maroons returned to Jamaica. He was Lord … Dundas spearheaded a vain attempt by the British to capture Saint-Domingue from the French amidst the chaos of the Haitian Revolution. He had to flee abroad but returned with Queen Mary and William of Orange and became Secretary of State for Scotland and the first Earl of Melville. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, PC, PC (Ire), FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848), in some sources called Henry William Lamb, was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). David Melville was born the third son to George Melville, first Earl of Melville, and his countess, Catherine Leslie at Monimail on the 5th May 1660. Known as Sir Robert Melville of Murdocairnie or Murdochcairnie, Robert was the second son of Sir John Melville of Raith in Fife and Helen Napier of Merchiston. He married Deirdre Knewstub (bef1941-) 6 December 1941 . He was praised for his military policies, for giving Scotland a cohesive government and for making it a major player in imperial affairs.[46]. Robert Melville, 1st Lord Melville (c. 1527–1621) was a Scottish diplomat, administrator, jurist, and intriguer, and uncle of the poet Elizabeth Melville. for Hastings. On 11 May 1590 he hosted the Danish Admiral Peder Munk at Rossend Castle at Burntisland. He was the trusted lieutenant of British prime minister William Pitt, and the most powerful politician in Scotland in the latter decades of the 18th century. There were demonstrations against the statue during the Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020. As a major official favourably disposed to Jack Aubrey, Lord Melville's political interest is often helpful to the captain. He was Deputy Lieutenant of Nairn, from 1961 to 1969. 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