He lost his father in 1791 and his mother in 1795 and was brought up by Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.

The last was that of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville in 1806.

The most recent cases of impeachment dealt with Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India between 1773 and 1786 ( impeached in 1788 ; the Lords found him not guilty in 1795 ), and Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1806 ( acquitted ).

Another road, Dundas Street named for the Colonial Secretary Henry Dundas, was built east-west between London and York.

* April 28 – Henry Dundas, British statesman ( d. 1811 )

* May 28 – Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, British minister ( b. 1742 )

Portrait of Henry Dundas

The early years of the nineteenth century saw Lawrence's portrait practice continue to flourish: amongst his sitters were major political figures such as Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville and William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, whose wife Lady Caroline Lamb was also painted by Lawrence.

* Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville-Home Secretary and Secretary of State for War to William Pitt the Younger, resident of Cannizaro House

An example of a drawing, of " Paradise ", her South African residenceAnne moved to London where she met and was married in 1793 to Andrew Barnard, 12 years her junior, a son of Thomas Barnard, the Bishop of Limerick, for whom she obtained from Henry Dundas ( 1st Viscount Melville ) an appointment as colonial secretary at the Cape of Good Hope, which was then under British military occupation.

*** Henry Dundas Cockburn ( Brentford, London, 1913-4 December 1998 ), Medical Superintendent at the Royal London Hospital, London

Most of these remained anonymous, but he acknowledged his Review of the Principal Proceedings of the Parliament of 1784, a defence of the policy of William Pitt, written at the desire of Henry Dundas.

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville PC and Baron Dunira ( 28 April 1742 – 28 May 1811 ) was a Scottish lawyer and politician.

Henry Dundas, as was the law of the time, kept all of the money and property.

The District of Dundas in New South Wales was named after the Colonial Secretary, Henry Dundas.

A reference was made to Henry Dundas and his role in the frustration of the abolition of the Slave Trade in the motion picture ' Amazing Grace ' ( 2006 ) where he was played by Bill Paterson.

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The leader of the Whigs was Robert Walpole, who maintained control of the government in the period 1721 – 1742 ; his protégé was Henry Pelham ( 1743 – 54 ).

Henry Fielding proved his mastery of the form in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ), The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great ( 1743 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ), but, as Fielding himself wrote, these novels were written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, not in imitation of the picaresque novel ; Cervantes himself wrote a short picaresque novel, Rinconete y Cortadillo part of his Novelas Ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels ).

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

In a pamphlet of " Remarks " ( 1742 ), he replied to John Tillard, and Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections ( 1744 – 1745 ) was an answer to Akenside, Conyers Middleton ( who had been his friend ), Richard Pococke, Nicholas Mann, Richard Grey, Henry Stebbing and other of his critics.

* George Henry Lee, 2nd Earl of Lichfield ( 1690 – 1742 )

The Opies and Bottigheimer both note that Henry Fielding alluded to Jack in Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ); Dr. Johnson admitted to reading the tale ; Boswell read the tale in his boyhood ; and William Cowper was another who mentioned the tale.

Until 1742 this meant the government of Walpole, but afterward it was the government of Henry Pelham to which he lent his support.

Born in Dalkeith: the American Architecht Robert Smith ( 1722 ), the politician Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ( 1742 ), the artist John Kay ( 1742 ), Robert Aitken who published the first Bible in North America, David Mushet, who pioneered iron production, photographer Robert Macpherson ( 1814 ), and the mathematical physicist Peter Guthrie Tait ( 1831 ).

He translated into French several works by Alexander Pope, Henry Bolingbroke, William Warburton's The Alliance between Church and State, ( 1736 ) as Dissertations sur l ’ Union de la Religion, de la Morale, et de la Politique ( 1742 ) and Baltasar Gracián's El político.

* William Henry Drayton ( 1742 – 1779 ), U. S. lawyer, South Carolina delegate to Continental Congress

Einbeck is the birthplace of Henry Mühlenberg, who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1742 and became the patriarch of the Muhlenberg family dynasty as well as the founder of the Lutheran church in the American colonies.

* Sir Henry St John, 4th Baronet ( 1652 – 1742 ) ( created Viscount St John in 1716 )

* Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John ( 1652 – 1742 )

* Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ( 1742 – 1811 )

* Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville ( 1742 – 1811 ), nicknamed " Henry IX " for his personal power in Scotland

In 1742, Henry Fielding published Joseph Andrews, and Sarah is often credited with having written the letter from Leonora to Horatio ( two of the characters in the book ).

Other notable painters were Richard Crosse ( 1742 – 1810 ), Ozias Humphry ( 1742 – 1810 ), Samuel Shelley ( c1750 – 1808 ), whose best pictures are groups of two or more persons, William Wood, a Suffolk artist ( 1768 – 1808 ), Henry Edridge ( 1769 – 1821 ), John Bogle, and Edward Dayes.

William Henry Drayton ( September 1742 – September 3, 1779 ) was an American planter and lawyer from Charleston, South Carolina.

* William Henry Drayton, ( 1742 – 1779 ), US lawyer, South Carolina delegate to Continental Congress