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ship he attended the expedition to Holland in Aug. 1799, and conveyed Sir Ralph Abercromby from Gibraltar to Egypt in Dec. 1800. He continued to serve, as Midshipman, at the blockade of Alexandria, until transferred, in July, 1801, to the Leda 38, Capt. Geo. Hope, with whom he was soon afterwards ordered to Lisbon. In Nov. 1802 he joined the Glenmore frigate, Capt. John Maitland, and, on accompanying that officer into the Boadicea 38, was present in a very spirited skirmish with the French 74-gun ship Duguay Trouin, also at the capture of Le Vanteur national lugger of 12 guns, and at the blockade of Rochefort. Being promoted (from the Monarch 74, flag-ship in the North Sea of Lord Keith) to a Lieutenancy, 25 May, 1805, in the Cambrian 40, Capt. John Poo Beresford, Mr. Dundas, in the course of the same year, assisted at the capture of three privateers, carrying in the whole 40 guns and 225 men. After officiating for a few weeks as Flag-Lieutenant, in the Leopard 50, to Hon. Geo. Cranfield Berkeley, on the North American station, he was awarded a second promotal commission, dated 8 Oct. 1806. During nearly seven months’ command of the Rosamond 18, Capt. Dundas was employed in attendance on the British Ambassador to the King of Sweden pending the siege of Stralsund, and was injured by the bursting of a shell while actively endeavouring to extinguish a fire which had broken out in the dockyard at Copenhagen a few nights after the surrender of that town to Lords Cathcart and Gambier. Assuming Post-rank 13 Oct. 1807, Capt. Dundas was next appointed – about the same period, to the command, pro tem., of the Cambrian 40 – 9 March, 1809, to the Stately 64, bearing the flag in the Baltic of Rear-Admiral Thos. Bertie – 31 Jan. and 8 Sept. 1812, to the Venerable 74, and Pyramus 36, in the latter of which ships he conveyed Sir Jas. Saumarez from Gottenborg to England, and captured, 20 April, 1813, and 18 Feb. 1814, the privateers Zebra of 10 guns and 38 men, and Ville de l’Orient of 14 guns and 97 men – 16 Aug. 1815, to the Tagus 38, on the Mediterranean station, whence he returned in Jan. 1819 – 6 Aug. 1830, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Wm. Parker, with whom he served in the Tagus until the early part of 1832 – and, 5 April, 1836, to the Britannia 120, bearing the flag of Sir Philip Durham at Portsmouth, where he continued until 7 April, 1838. Since his promotion to Flag-rank, 23 Nov. 1841, he has been on halt-pay.
Rear-Admiral Dundas, who is a Deputy-Lieutenant for Berkshire, and M.P. for Greenwich, was appointed Naval Aide-de-Camp to William the Fourth 5 Sept. 1831 – a C.B. 25 Oct. 1839 – and a Lord of the Admiralty, under the Whig Administration, 23 June, 1841. He resumed his seat at the Board, as one of the Naval Lords, in July, 1846. He married, 2 April, 1808, his first-cousin, Janet, only daughter and heiress of the late Chas. Dundas, Lord Amesbury, by Ann, daughter and sole heir of Ralph Whitley, Esq., of Aston Hall, co. Flint. By that lady, who died 20 April, 1846, he had issue, with three daughters, two sons, of whom the eldest, Charles, an officer in the Coldstream Guards, was M.P. for the Flint district in 1838. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
DUNDAS. (Captain, 1828. f-p., 16 : h-p., 24.)
John Burnet Dundas, born 14 Nov. 1794, is youngest son of the late Sir David Dundas, Bart., by Isabella, daughter of Wm. Robertson, Esq., of Richmond, co. Surrey; nephew of the late Capt. Ralph Dundas, R.N.; and brother of the present Sir Rich. Fullerton Dundas, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, 10 July, 1807, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Spencer 74, Capt. Hon. Robt. Stopford, one of the ships employed in the ensuing expedition against Copenhagen. From Oct. 1809, until the receipt of his first commission, 25 April, 1815, he served, as Midshipman, on board the Unicorn 32, and Acasta 40, both commanded, on the Home and North American stations, by Capt. Alex. Robt. Kerr; under whom he appears to have been most actively employed, and to have witnessed the recapture of L’Espérance (late H.M. 22-gun ship Laurel), and the capture, independently of many other vessels, of five privateers, carrying in all 57 guns and 510 men. As Lieutenant, we find Mr. Dundas successively appointed – 18 July, 1815, to the Lacedaemonian 38, Capt. Sam. Jackson, lying at Portsmouth – 18th Sept. in the same year, and 28 Dec. 1816, to the Tagus 38, Capt. Jas. Whitley Deans Dundas, and Myrmidon 20, Capt. Robt. Gambier, both on the Mediterranean station – and, 25 Nov. 1820, to the Niemen 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly. He was promoted, while First-Lieutenant of the latter ship, to the command, 20 March, 1823, of the Argus 18, on the Halifax station; and was subsequently appointed, 9 March, 1827, to the Weasel 10, in which sloop, after serving for some time in attendance on H.R.H. the Lord High Admiral, he was sent to the Mediterranean, where he removed, 2 Jan. 1828, to the Raleigh 18. Since his elevation to Post-rank, 8 July, 1828, Capt. Dundas has been unemployed.
He married, 30 Dec. 1828, Caroline, third daughter of the Rev. John Jeffreys, Rector of Barnes, co. Surrey.
DUNDAS, C.B. (Capt., 1824. f-p., 18; h-p., 12.)
The Honourable Richard Saunders Dundas, born 11 April, 1802, is second son of Viscount Melville, K.T., for many years First Lord of the Admiralty, by Anne, daughter and co-heir of Rich. Huck Saunders, Esq., M.D., and grand-niece and co-heir of Admiral Sir Chas. Saunders, K.B., who died 3 Dec. 1775. He is brother of Hon. Henry Dundas, C.B., Lieut.-Colonel 60th Rifles; and of Hon. Robt. Dundas, Storekeeper-General of the Navy.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College in 1815; and embarked, 15 June, 1817, as a Volunteer, on board the Ganymede 26, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer – with whom, as Midshipman of the same ship, and of the Owen Glendower 42, he served, until Dec. 1820, on the Mediterranean and South American stations. He then successively joined the Créole 42, and Superb 78, both commanded by Capt. Adam Mackenzie, the Alacrity and Icarus sloops, Capts. Henry Stanhope and Henry Algernon Eliot, and the Glasgow 50, Capt. Bentinck Cavendish Doyle. In the capacity of lieutenant, to which rank he was promoted 18 June, 1821, his appointments appear to have been – 24 Dec. 1821, to the Active 46, Capt. Andw. King, and, 25 Feb. and 6 Sept. 1822, to the Owen Glendower 42, and Sparrowhawk 18, Capts. Hon. R. C. Spencer and Edw. Boxer. He was advanced to the command, 23 June, 1823, of the latter vessel, on the Halifax station, where, and in the Mediterranean, he served until posted, 17 July, 1824. We subsequently find Capt. Dundas appointed – 13 Sept. 1825, to the Volage 28, fitting for South America – 12 March, 1827, to the Warspite 76, in which ship (the first of her class that ever circumnavigated the globe) he returned to England, from New South Wales, in Oct. following – 20 Nov. 1830, to the Belvidera 42, successively employed in the Mediterranean and off Oporto, whence he came home and was paid off in Dec. 1833 – and, 1 Sept. 1837, to the Melville 72. In that ship he afterwards bore a part in the opening scenes of the campaign in China. While there, he obtained the best thanks of Sir Gordon Bremer for his conduct at the capture of Ty-cock-tow, 7 Jan. 1841 – was present with H.M.’s Plenipotentiary at a formal meeting which was held with the Chinese Commissioner on 26 of the same month – and on 26 of the ensuing Feb. took up his position in the most gallant style in the action which preceded the capture of the forts at the Boca Tigris.[1] He paid the Melville off at the end of 1841; and has not since been afloat . Capt. Dundas, who had previously filled the same office under his father in 1828, 29, and 30, was appointed, in Jan. 1845, Private Secretary to the Earl
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1841, pp. 1162, 1496, 1498.
