About Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville
Lived 1801 – 1876 (aged 74). Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville was a British politician.
General Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville, GCB (25 February 1801 – 1 February 1876 ) was a British Army officer.
Military career The eldest son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, and his wife Anne, Dundas joined the Army as a lieutenant in the 3rd (or Scots) Guards in 1819. He was promoted to captain of the 83rd Regiment in 1824, major in 1826 and lieutenant-colonel in 1829. In 1837 he was active in suppressing the Canadian rebellion at the Battle of the Windmill, after which he was appointed colonel and aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria in 1841. remaining in that post until 1860, in which year he was made Governor of Edinburgh Castle. and for Winchelsea from 1830 to 1831.
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Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville was born on 25 February 1801.
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Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville died on 1 February 1876.
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