Robert Dundas, 9th Viscount Melville

Robert Dundas, 9th Viscount Melville (28 May 1937 – 21 July 2011) was a British Army officer and peer.

The eldest son of Robert Maldred St John Melville Dundas, the younger brother of the 8th Viscount Melville, and his wife Margaret, Dundas became the heir to the viscountcy when his father died in 1940. After his mother remarried, Dundas was raised at Keltie Castle in Perthshire.

Dundas attended Cargilfield Preparatory School and Wellington College in Berkshire before receiving officer training at Eaton Hall. Dundas joined the Army as a lieutenant in the Scots Guards in 1956, serving first in West Germany and then in Caterham, eventually rising to the rank of captain. After performing his national service Dundas remained a reserve Captain in the Scots Guards and served in the Ayrshire Yeomanry.