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Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville

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Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
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Eighteenth-century Scottish politician who played key roles in shaping domestic and international policy. Dundas was instrumental in slowing down the full abolition of slavery through amendments introduced to Parliamentary legislation. He was the President of the Board of Control, or the Parliamentary Committee that supervised the affairs of the British East India Company, especially its political and military activities in India.
was born | est né
28 April 1742
died in | est mort par
28 May 1811
is parent of | est parent de
Dundas, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville
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has type | est de type
has association with | a une association avec
British East India Company
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Wikipedia
History of Parliament Online
Art UK
National Portrait Gallery
David Geggus, Slavery, War, and Revolution: The British Occupation of Saint Domingue, 1793–1798 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983)
Stephen Mullen, 'Henry Dundas: A 'Great Delayer' of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade', Scottish Historical Review, 100, 2 (2021) 218–248

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Dundas, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville