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MELVILLE — MENDIP. 295 rebellion, l.S:J7-33 ; C.B., 30 March 1830; Aide-de-camp to the Queen, 1811-12; was in command in India in the second Sikh war, 181!), add took a leading part at the battles of Moultan and Goojerat, receiving the thanks of Pari. ; K.C.B., 5 dune 18 19 ; sue. to the peerage, 10 June 1851; Gov. of Edinburgh Castle, &c., 1855-60; Gen. of the Royal Scottish Archers; G.G.B., 2S March 18(35. He d. uum. at .Melville Castle, 1 Feb. 1S76, in his 75th year. [V. 187G. 4- Robert (Dundas), Viscouni Melville, &<:., br. ami h. ; b. 14 Sep. 1803, at Melville Castle ; Deputy Comptroller of the Navy, 1830; Store Keeper Gen., 183:2-69; sue. to the peerage, 1 Feb. 1876. lie (/. num., 18 Feb. 1SS6, at Suuthwood house, Kamsgato, Kent, and was bur. (from Melville Castle) at Lassivade. Will pr. June 1SS6, over £71,000. V. 1886. o. Robert (Dundas), Viscount Melville and Baron Dunira, nephew and h., being s. and h. of Itev. the Hun. Charles Dundas, Hector of Epworth, CO. Lincoln, by Louisa Maria, 1st da. of Sir William BOOTHBT, 9th Bart, which I 'harles was 4th and yet. s. of the 2d Viscount, and d. 24 Feb. 1883, aged 76. He was 6. 8 March 1835, and sue. to the peerage, IS Feb. 1886. He Hi. 18 June 1881, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Violet, 3d and yst. da. of Alexander Dundas Ross (Cochrane- Wish art- Baillie), 1st Baron Lamincton, by Annabella Mary Elizabeth, da. of Andrew Robert Drummond. She was 4. 20 Nov. 1S56. Family Batata. — These, in 1883, were under 2,000 acres. Principal Jtcsidcncc. .Melville Castle, near Lasswade, co. Edinburgh. MEMBLAND. See " Revelstoke of Membland, co. Devon," Barony (Darinq), cr. 1885. MENDIP. Barony. /. The Rt. Hon. Welbore Ellis, 6th and yst. but I 179-1 ou '- v sl,rv ' s ' °f ^ ^t. ^ ev - Welbore Elms, Bishop of Meath, 1731-33, by Diana, da. of Sir John Briscoe, of Amberley Castle, Sussex, was b. at Kildare, 15 Dec. 1713; cd. at Westm., 1728-32, whence he obtaiued a Studentship at Ch. Ch., Oxford in 1732 ; B.A., 1736. He was M.P. for Crieklade, 1741-47; for Weymouth, 1747-54 ; for Aylesbury, 1761-68 ; for Peters- liehl, 1768-74; for Weymouth (again) 1774-90, and for Petersfield (again), 1791-94. Meanwhile he was a Lord of the Admiraltv, 1747 55 ; Joint Vice Treasurer of Ireland, 1756-61, again 1765-66, and thirdly 1770-77; P.O., 20 March 1760; Sec. at War, 1762-65, and Treasurer of the Navy, 1777-82. D.C.L., Oxford, 7 July 1773. From Feb. to March 1782, he held the (then very critical) post of Sec. of State for America and the Colonies. In 1793 he joined the Ministerial side in politics^) and was (at the ( a ) An opponent to any concessions to America, as also to the liberty of the Press, he is depicted by "Junius" (where he is nicknamed "Grildrig") with the utmost contempt, and is spoken of by Lord Stanhope as " ridiculed for his diminutive stature, not redeemed by any loftiness of mind " There are many interesting notices of him in Wraxall's " Memoirs " where his character is thus summed up " After occupying during several years a distinguished place in the ranks of opposition under Lord North and Fox [he was] raised, in the winter of life, by Pitt (like so many other individuals) to tin dignity a British Peer. He might be considered as the Nestor of the Ministry and of the House of Commons. In his figure, manner, and deportment, the very essence of form, he regularly took his place on the Treasury bench dressed in all points as if he had been going to the drawing room at St. James's. His eloquence was precise, grave, and constrained, unilluuiinated by taste, aud calculated to convince, more than to exhilirate or electrify, his amlience. The respect due to his age, character and employment, rather than the force of his arguments commonly secured him a patient hearing, but he was neither listened to with enthusiasm, nor regretted when he ceased actively to exert his abilities in support of the measures of the administration.