Charles Dundas, 1st Baron Amesbury

Charles Dundas, 1823

Charles Dundas, 1st Baron Amesbury (born August 5, 1751 , † June 30, 1832 in Pimlico , London ) was a British politician.

Life

Charles Dundas was the youngest of the six children of Thomas Dundas (around 1708–1786) and his wife Lady Janet Maitland, daughter of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale . His older brother was Thomas Dundas . Dundas attended Edinburgh High School and then studied law at the University of Edinburgh and the Trinity College of Cambridge University . In 1774 he joined the Middle Temple and was appointed barrister three years later .

On February 16, 1782 he married Anne Whitley († 1812), heir to Ralph Whitley, landlord of Kintbury and Aston Hall in Berkshire . With her he had a daughter, Hon. Janet Dundas (around 1783–1846). In 1822 Dundas married a second time, this time his cousin Margaret Barclay-Maitland († 1841).

In 1797 he was appointed colonel in command of the White Horse Volunteer Cavalry , the Berkshire Landwehr cavalry .

Political career

He belonged to the party of the Whigs and was in the general election in 1775 as MP for the Borough Richmond in Yorkshire in the British House of Commons voted. His uncle, Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet , had owned the Orkneys and Shetlands since 1766 . First his father and finally his brother Thomas held the House of Commons mandate for County Orkney and Shetland since 1768 . Due to his military obligations, the latter could no longer perform his duties, which is why Lawrence Dundas had his nephew Charles Dundas run for Orkney and Shetland in the general election in 1780. However, Dundas was defeated by the government-backed Robert Baikie . However, by petition in February of the following year, Dundas was subsequently appointed as representative of Orkney and Shetland.

In 1784 Dundas went again for the Borough of Richmond and held the mandate until 1786. That year he was elected as Knight of the Shire for Berkshire. For this county he sat in the House of Commons until his elevation to the nobility in 1832. Between 1785 and 1820 Dundas was an advisor to the Crown Prince and later King George IV , who was the Duke of Rothesay as the Great Steward of Scotland during this period .

On May 16, 1832 he was raised to Baron Amesbury , of Kintbury, Amesbury, and Barton-court, in the County of Berks , and of Aston-hall in the County of Flint , and thereby became a member of the House of Lords . Dundas died on June 30th of the same year. Since he had no male offspring, the title expired on his death. His lands and his fortune fell to his daughter Janet or her husband, the member of the House of Commons and later Admiral Sir James Deans (1785-1862), who had adopted the surname "Whitley-Deans-Dundas" on the occasion of the marriage with Janet in 1808.

literature

• George Edward Cokayne , Vicary Gibbs (Eds.): The Complete Peerage . Volume 1, The St Catherine Press, London 1910, pp. 120-121 ( archive.org ).
• David R. Fisher: Dundas, Charles (1751-1832), of Barton Court, Kintbury, Berks .; Aston Hall, Hawarden, Flints., And Manor House, Pimlico, Mdx. In: David R. Fisher (Ed.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1820-1832. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009 ( online)
• Francis Watt: Dundas, Charles, Baron Amesbury. In: HCG Matthew (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1995 ( online at thepeerage.com ).

Web links

• Charles Dundas, 1st and last Baron Amesbury on thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1820-1832.
2. ^ Edith Haden-Guest: Orkney and Shetland. Single Member Scottish County. In: Lewis Namier, John Brooke (Eds.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1754-1790. HMSO, London 1964 ( online ).
3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 18935, HMSO, London, May 11, 1832, p. 1045 ( PDF , English).
4. ↑ thepeerage.com
5. ^ Admiral Sir James Whitley-Deans-Dundas on thepeerage.com

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Baron Amesbury 1832	Title expired