NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Haldane Robert Dundas Duncan- (1785-1859) 1st Earl of Camperdown LBT ID: LdCampe1 | B/BAP: 1785-03-21 DIED: 1859-12-22 |
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (February 1860) 181-82; thePeerage.com | |
The only son of Admiral Adam Duncan, first Viscount Duncan (d. 1804); he served in the
Coldstream Guards during the Napoleonic era and voted with the Whigs in the Lords; he was
created earl in 1831. | |
REFERENCES TO Robert Dundas Duncan-Haldane, first earl of Camperdown: John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 30 March 1822 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of
John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 1:
¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, [6] December 1831 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:
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