Reference code
ZA UCT BC_S_BCS201
Title
Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville.
Date(s)
- 1800 (Creation)
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Single item/Small collection
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One MS copy of letter (15 pages, d.d. 2-4-1800), signed H Dundas, to the Chairman of the East India Company re private trade and India built shipping.
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Henry Dundas (1742-1811), 1st. Viscount Melville, was an intimate friend of William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) and a member, later President, of the Board of Control after Pitt's East India Bill was passed.