Henry Dundas first Viscount Melville

Standard Name: Melville, Henry Dundas,,, first Viscount

Used Form: Henry Dundas

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Lady Anne Barnard	The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography supposes that Henry Dundas (who had known Lady Anne Lindsay in Edinburgh and remained a lifelong correspondent) might have married her if he had not needed to marry money...
Friends, Associates	Lady Anne Barnard	Lady Anne lived much of her life in fashionable society, and her acquaintance was very wide. In Edinburgh in her early twenties she impressed and delighted Samuel Johnson with an impromptu and complimentary bon mot...
Textual Production	Lady Anne Barnard	When LAB moved to the Cape of Good Hope with her husband in 1797, she began to keep journals and to make drawings and watercolours descriptive of life there. The diary was actually written at...

Timeline

2 April 1792

William Wilberforce moved once again in the House of Commons for complete abolition of the slave trade. The ensuing all-night debate ended in a victory, 230 votes to 85.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

After 31 March 1796

William Beckford burlesqued women writers and attacked reactionary government in his novel Modern Novel Writing, or the Elegant Enthusiast; and Interesting Emotions of Arabella Bloomville. A Rhapsodical Romance; Interspersed with Poetry, published as Lady...

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