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522 DUNDAS DUNDAFF i.e. "DuNDAFF," Viscountcy [S.] (Graham), cr. 24 Apr. 1707, with the Dukedom of Montrose [S.], which see. DUNDALK See "Gorges of Dundalk, co. Louth," Barony [I.] (Gorges), cr. 1620; exiiftct 171 2. i.e. "Dundalk.," Barony [I.] {Schulenberg), cr. 1716, with the Dukedom OF MuNSTER [I.]; see " Kendal," Dukedom of, cr. 17 19; all honours extinct 1743, by the death of the grantee. DUNDAS OF ASKE BARONY. I. Thomas Dun DAS,(*) only s. and h. of Sir Laurence DuNDAs, of Upleatham, co. York, Bart, (so cr. 23 Nov. I. 1794. 1762), Commissary Gen. and Contractor to the Army (1748-59), by Margaret, da. of Alexander Bruce, of Kennet,() was /^. 16 Feb. 1 741, and ^^j/). at Edinburgh; was M. P. (Whig) for Richmond 1763-68; for co. Stirling (in five Paris.) i768-94;(^) F.R.S. 5 May 1768. He sue. his father in the family estates in the counties of Stirling and York and in the Baronetcy, 21 Sep. 1781; F.S.A. i Apr. 1784. On 13 Aug. 1794, he was cr. BARON DUNDAS OF ASKE, co. York. Councillor of State to the Prince of Wales; Lord Lieut, and Vice Adm. of Orkney and Shetland 1 794-1 820. Pres. Soc. Ant. [S.] 18 13-18. He »i., 14 May 1764, in Grosvenor Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq., Charlotte, 2nd da. of William (Fitzwilliam), ist Earl Fitzwilliam (3rd Earl in Ireland), (■*) by Anne, da. of Thomas (Watson-Wentworth), Marquess of Rocking- ham. He d. 14 June 1820, aged 79, at Aske Hall, co. York.(') Will pr. Nov. 1820. His widow, who was b. 14 July 1746, d. 11 Feb. 1833, in Arlington Str., St. James's. Will pr. Feb. 1833. (*) Dundas is one of the twelve families given in Drummond's Noble British Families. See vol. i, p. 1 1 8, note "b," sub Alvanley. (*>) See vol. i, p. 381, sub Balfour of Burleigh. V.G. (=) He at first supported the Court, but soon became a Whig. He was patron of Symington, the engineer. V.G. C^) This is the first of at least five marriages between these families, the other four being those of (i) the Hon. Mary Dundas in 1806 to Charles William, Viscount Milton, afterwards 5th Earl Fitzwilliam; (2) Anne Dundas in 1854 to the Hon. Charles William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam; (3) the Hon. Cospatrick Thomas Dundas in 1892 to Maud Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, and (4) Lady Maud Frederica Elizabeth Dundas in 1896 to William Charles de Meuron, Viscount Milton, afterwards 7th Earl Fitzwilliam. V.G. (*) His peerage was conferred on the recommendation of Pitt, at a time when his brother-in-law. Earl Fitzwilliam, and other Whigs joined his Government. He was one of two peers (Lord Mulgrave being the other) who signed a petition against