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Henry Dundas
Henry Dundas, later 1st Viscount Melville, was a Scottish lawyer and politician who dominated the management of Scottish politics for about three decades in the late eighteenth century. A close ally of William Pitt the Younger, he presided over the Board of Control for India and served as Secretary of State for War. In 1806 he was impeached for misuse of naval funds and acquitted.
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