Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville explained
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Viscount Melville |
| Honorific-Suffix: | KT PC FRS |
| Order1: | President of the Board of Control |
| Term Start1: | 1807 |
| Term End1: | 1809 |
| Monarch1: | George III |
| Primeminister1: | The Duke of Portland |
| Predecessor1: | Thomas Grenville |
| Successor1: | The Lord Harrowby |
| Term Start2: | 1809 |
| Term End2: | 1812 |
| Monarch2: | George III |
| Primeminister2: | Hon. Spencer Perceval |
| Predecessor2: | The Lord Harrowby |
| Successor2: | The Earl of Buckinghamshire |
| Order3: | Chief Secretary for Ireland |
| Term Start3: | 1809 |
| Term End3: | 1809 |
| Monarch3: | George III |
| Primeminister3: | The Duke of Portland |
| Predecessor3: | Hon. Sir Arthur Wellesley |
| Successor3: | Hon. William Wellesley-Pole |
| Order4: | First Lord of the Admiralty |
| Term Start4: | 1812 |
| Term End4: | 1827 |
| Monarch4: | George III
George IV |
| Primeminister4: | The Earl of Liverpool |
| Predecessor4: | Charles Philip Yorke |
| Successor4: | The Duke of Clarence
(Lord High Admiral) |
| Term Start5: | 1828 |
| Term End5: | 1830 |
| Monarch5: | George IV |
| Primeminister5: | The Duke of Wellington |
| Predecessor5: | The Duke of Clarence
(Lord High Admiral) |
| Successor5: | Sir James Graham, Bt |
| Birth Date: | 1771 3, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Edinburgh, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Death Place: | Melville Castle, Midlothian |
| Nationality: | British |
| Alma Mater: | University of Göttingen
University of Edinburgh
Emmanuel College, Cambridge |
| Children: | 6, including Henry, Richard, and Robert |
| Parents: | Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Elizabeth Rannie |
Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, (14 March 1771 – 10 June 1851) was a British statesman, the son of Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount. Dundas was the Member of Parliament for Hastings in 1794, Rye in 1796 and Midlothian in 1801. He was also Keeper of the Signet for Scotland from 1800. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1807, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1817, a Knight of the Thistle in 1821, and was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews from 1814. Melville filled various political offices and was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1812 to 1827 and from 1828 to 1830.
Early life and family
He was born in Edinburgh on 14 March 1771, the only son of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, and his first wife, the former Elizabeth Rannie (1751–1843). Educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, he went on a continental tour in 1786 with his tutor John Bruce. He enrolled at Göttingen University.[1] He studied afterwards at the University of Edinburgh and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was admitted at Lincoln's Inn in 1788.
Notes and References
- Johanna Oehler: »Abroad at Göttingen« Britische Studenten als Akteure des Kultur- Wissenstransfers 1735–1806, Wallstein, Göttingen 2016, p. 167–198 (German)
