Viscount Melville

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Viscount Melville is a Scottish peerage title historically associated with Henry Dundas, an influential late 18th- and early 19th-century British politician and statesman.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Viscount Melville canonical 4
Lord Melville 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf British politician
Scottish lawyer
peerage title
title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
associatedWith Dundas family
Henry Dundas
closeAllyOf William Pitt the Younger
country Great Britain
United Kingdom
ethnicGroup Scottish
familyName Dundas
fieldOfWork law
politics
givenName Henry
hasFirstHolder Henry Dundas
surface form: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
hasGenderRestriction male-preference primogeniture
hasHigherTitle Earl of Melville
hasLanguage English
hasNobleFamily Dundas family
surface form: Dundas family of Melville
hasTerritorialDesignation of Melville
hasTitle 1st Viscount Melville
historicalPeriod 19th century
late 18th century
languageSpoken English
memberOf House of Commons of Great Britain
House of Lords
surface form: House of Lords of the United Kingdom
namedAfter Melville, Scotland
nobleRank Viscount
nobleTitle Baron Dunira
Viscount Melville self-linksurface differs
notableFor influence on late 18th-century British politics
involvement in delaying abolition of the slave trade
role in British imperial expansion
notableWork administration of the Royal Navy
management of British interests in India
partOf British peerage system
politicalAlignment Tory
positionHeld First Lord of the Admiralty
Home Secretary
surface form: Home Secretary of Great Britain

Secretary of State for War
Treasurer of the Navy
residence London, England
surface form: London

Scotland
usedIn British nobility

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Henry Dundas nobleTitle Viscount Melville
Lord Liverpool ministry notableMember Viscount Melville
this entity surface form: Lord Melville
Viscount Melville nobleTitle Viscount Melville self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Dundas associatedTitle Viscount Melville
1st Viscount Melville nobleTitle Viscount Melville
subject surface form: Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
Liverpool ministry includedOfficeHolder Viscount Melville
this entity surface form: Lord Melville