DUNDAS, George (eld. son of James Dundas of Dundas, co. Linlithgow 1793–1881). b. Dundas castle 12 Nov. 1819; 1 lieut. rifle brigade 15 April 1842, retired Dec. 1844; M.P. for co. Linlithgow 1847–1858; lieut. governor of Prince Edward island Jany. 1859 to July 1870; lieut. governor of St. Vincent 31 Oct. 1874 to death. d. St. Vincent 18 March 1880.
DUNDAS, James (eld. son of George Dundas 1802–69). b. Edinburgh? 12 Sep. 1842; 1 lieut. Bengal engineers 8 June 1860, captain 3 Aug. 1872 to death; V.C. for bravery in Bhootan 1865; killed while attempting to blow up a fort at Sherpur near Cabul 23 Dec. 1879, monument to his memory erected in Edinburgh cathedral. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign, biog. division (1882) 72–4, portrait.
DUNDAS, Sir James Whitley Deans (son of James Deans, M.D. of Calcutta). b. Scotland 4 Dec. 1785; entered navy 19 March 1799; captain 13 Oct. 1807; assumed surname of Dundas 1808; naval aide-de-camp to Wm. iv, 5 Sep. 1831; M.P. for Greenwich 1832–35 and 1841–52; M.P. for Devizes 1836–38; a lord of the Admiralty 23 June 1841 to Sep. 1841 and July 1846 to Feb. 1852; commander in chief of Mediterranean fleet 17 Jany. 1852 to 31 Dec. 1854; admiral 8 Dec. 1857; C.B. 25 Oct. 1839, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; awarded good service pension 12 April 1862. d. Weymouth 3 Oct. 1862. E. H. Nolan’s History of Russian war i, 696 (1857), portrait; I.L.N. xxiii, 140 (1853), portrait.
DUNDAS, Sir John Burnet, 4 Baronet. b. Richmond, Surrey 17 Nov. 1794; entered navy 10 July 1807; captain 8 July 1828; R.A. on h.p. 7 Feb. 1855; admiral on h.p. 5 May 1865; succeeded 16 June 1848. d. Queensberry villa, Richmond 2 Sep. 1868.
DUNDAS, John Charles (2 son of 1 Earl of Zetland 1766–1839). b. Mask hall, Cleveland 21 Aug. 1808; M.P. for Richmond, Yorkshire 1830–35, 1841–47 and 1865 to death; M.P. for York 1835–37; lord lieut. of Orkney and Shetland 1839 to death. d. the Villa Cessole near Nice 14 Feb. 1866.
DUNDAS, Sir Richard Saunders (2 son of 2 Viscount Melville 1771–1851). b. Melville castle near Edinburgh 11 April 1802; ed. at Harrow; entered navy 15 June 1817; captain 17 July 1824; superintendent of Deptford dockyard 16 April 1851 to Dec. 1852; a lord of the Admiralty, Dec. 1852 to Feb. 1855 and 21 Nov. 1857 to death; commander in chief of Baltic fleet 19 Feb. 1855 to Dec. 1855; employed on Mediterranean and Home stations Feb. 1856 to March 1857; V.A. 24 Feb. 1858; C.B. 29 June 1841, K.C.B. 4 Feb. 1856; grand officer of Legion of Honour. d. 13 New st. Spring Gardens, London 3 June 1861.
DUNDAS, William Bolden. 2 lieut. R.A. 8 Sep. 1803, col. 1 Nov. 1848 to 28 Nov. 1854; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. d. Inveresk, Edinburgh 8 Aug. 1858.
DUNDAS, William Pitt (youngest son of Robert Dundas 1753–1819, lord chief baron of court of exchequer in Scotland). b. Melville castle 6 March 1801; advocate 13 June 1823; deputy keeper of privy seal of Scotland 1852; registrar general of births, deaths and marriages in Scotland 13 Sep. 1855, deputy clerk registrar 1874–80; C.B. 10 May 1876. d. 14 Athole crescent, Edinburgh 17 May 1883.
DUNDONALD, Thomas Cochrane, 10 Earl of (eld. child of 9 Earl of Dundonald 1748–1831). b. Annsfield, Lanarkshire 14 Dec. 1775; midshipman R.N. 27 June 1793, captain 8 Aug. 1801; destroyed French shipping in road of Île d’Aix 11 April 1809; contested Honiton 1805, M.P. for Honiton 1806–1807; M.P. for Westminster 23 May 1807 to 5 July 1814 when expelled; M.P. again 16 July 1814 to 10 June 1818; lost his rank in navy 25 June 1814; sentenced to pay a fine of £1000 and to be imprisoned in King’s Bench prison for a year 21 June 1814 having been convicted unjustly of a stock-jobbing fraud 8 June 1814; commanded Chilian navy Dec. 1818 to Nov. 1822, Brazilian navy 21 March 1823 to 10 Nov. 1825, Greek navy Feb. 1827 to 1828; created Marquess of Maranham by Don Pedro of Brazil 1823; reinstated in his place in the navy by Wm. iv, 2 May 1832; R.A. 8 May 1832; commander in chief on North American and West Indian stations 12 Jany. 1848 to Jany. 1851; admiral 21 March 1851; R.A. of United Kingdom 29 Oct. 1854; K.B. 26 April 1809 to 5 July 1814 when expelled, reinstated 22 May 1847; G.C.B. 25 May 1847; author of Narrative of the liberation of Chili 2 vols. 1858. d. 12 Prince Albert road, Kensington, London 31 Oct. 1860. bur. centre of nave of Westminster Abbey 14 Nov. Autobiography of a Seaman 2 vols. 1860, portrait; Life of Lord Cochrane by T. B. Cochrane and H. R. F. Bourne 2 vols. 1869, portrait; W. C. Townsend’s Modern state trials ii, 1–111 (1850); Army and navy mag. i, 113–29 (1881), portrait; Law mag. and law review x, 203–35 (1861), xi, 188–201; I.L.N. xxxvii, 471, 472 (1860), portrait.
DUNFERMLINE, James Abercromby, 1 Baron (3 son of Sir Ralph Abercromby 1738–1801). b. 7 Nov. 1776; barrister L.I. 8 Feb. 1800; a comr. of bankrupts 1802–27; M.P. for Midhurst 1807–12, for Calne 1812–30, for Edinburgh 1832–39; judge advocate general 12 May 1827 to Jany. 1828; lord chief baron of exchequer in Scotland 20 Feb. 1830 to 1832 when office was abolished under statute 2 Wm. iv, cap. 54 and he was granted pension of £2000 a year; master of the Mint 1 July 1834 to Nov. 1834; speaker of House of Commons 19 Feb. 1835 elected by a majority of 10 votes, closest contest on record, retired 15 May 1839; created Baron Dunfermline of Dunfermline, co. Fife 7 June 1839; dean of faculty in Univ. of Glasgow 1841; author of Lieutenant general Sir Ralph Abercromby, K.B. 1793–1801, a memoir 1861. d. Colinton near Edinburgh 17 April 1858. T. Murray’s Biographical annals of parish of Colinton (1863) 107–12; J. A. Manning’s Lives of the speakers (1850) 489–93; J. Burke’s Commoners iv, (1838), portrait.