- Charles Dundas, 1st Baron Amesbury
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Lord Amesbury.
Charles Dundas, 1st Baron Amesbury (5 August 1751 – 7 July 1832) was a British politician.
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Background and education
Charles was a younger son of Thomas Dundas of Fingask, MP for Orkney and Shetland (1768–1771) and a commissioner of police in Scotland (31 January 1771), who died on 10 April 1786. His mother was his father's second wife, Janet, daughter of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He was called to the bar from the Middle Temple, but devoted himself to a political life.
Political career
Dundas first sat for the borough of Richmond in 1774, Orkney and Shetland in 1780, Richmond again in 1784–1786, and finally for Berkshire, which he represented in ten successive parliaments (1794–1832). He was, finally, the second eldest member in the house. He was a liberal in politics. In 1802, on the resignation of Mitford (afterwards Lord Redesdale), the then speaker, he was nominated, by Sheridan, as his successor in opposition to Abbot. He, however, withdrew from the contest. Dundas was Counsellor of State for Scotland to the Prince of Wales, and colonel of the White Horse volunteer cavalry. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Amesbury, of Kintbury, Amesbury, and Barton Court in the County of Berkshire, and of Aston Hall in the County of Flint, on 11 May 1832.[2] Apart from his political career he was also the first chairman of the Kennet and Avon Canal Company and the Dundas Aqueduct was named after him.
Personal life
Lord Amesbury was twice married. His first wife, Anne, daughter of Ralph Whitley of Aston Hall, Flintshire, by whom he had one daughter, Janet, wife of Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas, who brought him the considerable estate of Kintbury-Amesbury (otherwise Barton Court) in Berkshire as well as other property. His second wife, whom he married on 25 January 1822, was his cousin, Margaret, daughter of Charles Barclay and widow of (firstly) Charles Ogilvy and (secondly) Major Archibald Erskine. He died 7 July 1832 at his residence in Pimlico, whereupon the title became extinct. Lady Amesbury died 14 April 1841.
See also
References
- ^ Dundas, Charles in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
- ^ London Gazette: no. 18935. p. 1045. 11 May 1832.
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Parliament of Great Britain Preceded by
Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt
Thomas DundasMember of Parliament for Richmond
1775–1780
With: William Norton 1775–1780Succeeded by
Sir Lawrence Dundas, Bt
Marquess of GrahamPreceded by
Robert BaikieMember of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland
1780–1784Succeeded by
Thomas DundasPreceded by
George Fitzwilliam
Marquess of GrahamMember of Parliament for Richmond
1784–1786
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Sir Grey CooperPreceded by
George Vansittart
Winchcombe Henry HartleyMember of Parliament for Berkshire
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