Viscount Melville, of Melville in the County of Edinburgh, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom

Peerage of the United Kingdom

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. It was created in 1802 for the notable lawyer and politician Henry Dundas

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville PC and Baron Dunira was a Scottish lawyer and politician. He was the first Secretary of State for War and the last person to be impeached in the United Kingdom....

. He was made Baron Dunira, in the County of Perth, at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Dundas, who was the fourth son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder

Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder

Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, the elder was a Scottish judge.The second son of Robert Dundas he served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1717 to 1720 and as Lord Advocate from 1720 to 1725...

, declined an earldom in 1809. He was succeeded by his son, the second Viscount, who was also a noted politician. He assumed for himself the additional surname of Saunders, which was that of his father-in-law. His son, the third Viscount, was a General in the British Army

British Army

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. His nephew, the sixth Viscount, was a diplomat. the titles are held by the latter's great-great-grandson, the tenth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 2011.

The family seat is Wey House, near Norton Fitzwarren

Norton Fitzwarren

Norton Fitzwarren is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated north west of Taunton in the Taunton Deane district. The village has a population of 2,325.-History:...

 in Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

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Viscounts Melville (1802)

• Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
  Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville
  Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville PC and Baron Dunira was a Scottish lawyer and politician. He was the first Secretary of State for War and the last person to be impeached in the United Kingdom....
  
   (1742–1811)
• Robert Saunders–Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville
  Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville
  Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville KT, PC, FRS was a British statesman, the son of Henry Dundas, the 1st Viscount. Dundas was the Member of Parliament for Hastings in 1794, Rye in 1796 and Midlothian in 1801. He was also Keeper of the Signet for Scotland from 1800...
  
   (1771–1851)
• Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville
  Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville
  Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville GCB was a British military leader.- Military career :The eldest son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, he was captain of the 83rd Regiment from 1824, and was active in suppressing the Canadian rebellion in 1837...
  
   (1801–1876)
• Robert Dundas, 4th Viscount Melville (1803–1886)
• Robert Dundas, 5th Viscount Melville (1835–1904)
• Charles Saunders Dundas, 6th Viscount Melville (1843–1926)
• Henry Charles Clement Dundas, 7th Viscount Melville (1873–1935)
• Henry Charles Patric Brouncker Dundas, 8th Viscount Melville (1909–1971)
• Robert David Ross Dundas, 9th Viscount Melville (1937-2011)
• Robert Henry Kirkpatrick Dundas, 10th Viscount Melville (b. 1984)