Robert Saunders Dundas, second viscount Melville

(1771-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851 NRA: Dundas, Robert Saunders- (1771-1851) 2nd Viscount Melville, statesman DNB: Dundas, Robert Saunders, second Viscount Melville (1771-1851), politician LBT ID: LdMelvi2 VIAF ID: 817538 LOC ID: no89014881	B/BAP: 1771-03-14 DIED: 1851-06-10
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Son of the first viscount (d. 1811); he was keeper of the signet for Scotland, MP, president of the board of control, and first lord of the Admiralty (1812-27).
REFERENCES TO Robert Saunders Dundas, second viscount Melville: Walter Scott to John Murray, 30 October 1808 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 3 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 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 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 16 February 1811 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 17 May 1812 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Thomas Creevey to Eleanor Creevey, 27 May 1812 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 Eleanor Creevey, 28 May 1812 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 Robert Southey, 4 June 1812 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 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 Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 18 September 1818 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 24 September 1818 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Adam Ferguson, 15 January 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Adam Ferguson, 16 April 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 6 May 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 4 September 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 14 October 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 6 Walter Scott to Walter Scott, jun., 13 November 1819 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Sophia Scott, 3 April 1820 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 20 July 1820 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 1 John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 11 November 1820 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 Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 11 November 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sir Walter Scott to Lord Montagu of Boughton, 1 July 1821 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 5 Thomas Wilde to Henry Brougham, 8 August 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Stephen Lushington to Henry Brougham, 9 August 1821 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 Elizabeth Ord, 27 August 1821 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Preliminary Statement Found 1: ¶ 6 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Noctes Ambrosianae XVII” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 16 (November 1824) 585-601 Verse 2: p. 597a p. 597a John Wilson Croker to Sir Walter Scott, 16 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 Sir Robert Dundas [18? March 1826] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 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 Sir Walter Scott to John Gibson Lockhart, 16 April 1827 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Richard Lalor Sheil to Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, [January 1829] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1778-83 Found 1: ¶ n1 Chapter IX 1798-99 Found 1: ¶ 34 Chapter VI 1808-09 Chapter VII 1809-10 Found 1: ¶ 18 Chapter X 1810-11 Found 1: ¶ 11 Chapter XI 1811 Found 1: ¶ 1 Chapter XII 1811-12 Chapter I 1812-13 Chapter X 1814-15 Found 1: ¶ 33 Chapter IV 1818 Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter VI 1818 Found 5: ¶ 10 ¶ 13 ¶ 15 ¶ 19 ¶ 26 Chapter VII 1818-19 Chapter VIII 1819 Chapter IX 1819 Chapter X 1819 Chapter XII 1820 Chapter IV 1821 Chapter XIII 1824-25 Found 2: ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Chapter IV 1825 Found 4: ¶ 8 ¶ 17 ¶ 21 ¶ 39 Chapter VII 1826 Found 3: ¶ 39 ¶ 40 ¶ 41 Chapter VIII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter IX 1826 Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter X 1826 Found 3: ¶ 25 ¶ 65 ¶ 71 Chapter XI 1826 Found 2: ¶ 46 ¶ 56 Chapter I 1826-27 Chapter II 1827 Found 1: ¶ 7 Chapter IV 1828 Found 1: ¶ 2 Chapter IX 1831 Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVI. 1810-1811 Ch. XVII. 1812 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 9: Mr. Canning Found 2: ¶ 9 ¶ n1 Ch. 15: Learned Societies Found 1: ¶ 8 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) Chapter II Found 1: ¶ 13 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XVIII Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter IV. Chapter V. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 7: 1818-20 Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter 9: 1820-21 Chapter 13: 1826 Found 1: ¶ 41 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. VIII: 1812 Ch XIII: 1819-20 Ch I: 1821 Ch. V: 1827 Found 1: ¶ 4 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter VIII: 1820