Henry Dundas, first viscount Melville

(1742-1811)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811 NRA: Dundas, Henry (1742-1811) 1st Viscount Melville, statesman DNB: Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742-1811), politician LBT ID: LdMelvi1 VIAF ID: 10651882 LOC ID: n50079208	B/BAP: 1742-04-28 DIED: 1811-05-27
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Scottish politician, president of the board of control (1793-1801), secretary of war (1794-1801); first lord of the Admiralty (1804-05).
REFERENCES TO Henry Dundas, first viscount Melville: William Godwin, Unpublished letter to The Morning Chronicle [3 March 1794] in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 5 William Roscoe to James Currie, [January? 1797] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [June] 1801 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ n1 Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 25 November 1802 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 27 June 1804 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 13 March 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 13 April 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to James Currie, 11 May 1805 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 George Ellis to Walter Scott, 6 February 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 20 February 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 3 March 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 7 April 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 21 April 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lord Henry Petty to Thomas Creevey, 2 November 1807 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Samuel Whitbread to Thomas Creevey, 18 April 1808 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 2 November 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 2 November 1808 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, December 1808 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 5 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 26 September 1809 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 3 November 1809 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, [May?] 1810 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Thomas Scott, 25 May 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Thomas Scott, 12 June 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Thomas Scott, 21 June 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 1 July 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Walter Scott to George Crabbe, 1 June [1813] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir William Johnstone Hope to William Jerdan, 22 August 1814 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to Sir Robert Dundas [18? March 1826] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 19 March 1826 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 7 October 1828 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 3: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 8 Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter VI. 1796-1799 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 1: ¶ 34 Chapter II 1805 Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter III 1806 Found 4: ¶ 1 ¶ 14 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Chapter VI 1808-09 Chapter VII 1809-10 Chapter VIII 1810 Found 1: ¶ 4 Chapter X 1810-11 Found 2: ¶ 18 ¶ 20 Chapter I 1812-13 Chapter IX 1822-23 Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter IV 1825 Found 3: ¶ n2 ¶ 72 ¶ n2 Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 27 Chapter VIII 1826 Chapter III 1828 Found 1: ¶ 14 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. X. 1804 Ch. XIII. 1807 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 16: John Trotter Found 1: ¶ 20 Correspondence Found 1: ¶ 1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1801 Found 1: ¶ n1 Letters 1808 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 2: ¶ 34 ¶ 37 Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 12 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. V. 1783-1794 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter V. Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. I: 1793-1804 Ch. II: 1805 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 Ch. III: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 1 Ch. IV: 1806-08 Ch. VI: 1810 Ch. VII: 1828 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 4