Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville

has biography | a une biographie: 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
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: British East India Company

is referred to by | est référencé par: 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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