Richard Saunders Dundas
Sir Richard Dundas | |
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Vice-admiral | |
Commands held | HMS Sparrowhawk HMS Volage HMS Warspite HMS Belvidera HMS Melville HMS Powerful Baltic Fleet |
Battles/wars | First Opium War Crimean War |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Early career
The son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville and his wife Anne (née Huck-Saunders), Dundas was educated at Harrow School and joined the Royal Navy in 1817.[1] After initial training at the Royal Navy College at Portsmouth he joined the frigate HMS Ganymede in the Mediterranean Fleet.[1] Promoted to lieutenant on 16 June 1821 and to commander on 23 June 1823, he was given command of the sloop HMS Sparrowhawk on the North America and West Indies Station in June 1823.[2]
Promoted to
Dundas returned to the
Senior command
Promoted to
Dundas was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 5 February 1856[9] and became Second-in-command of the Mediterranean Fleet, hoisting his flag in HMS Duke of Wellington, in April 1856.[2] He was also appointed a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour on 2 August 1856.[10]
Dundas was appointed Second Naval Lord in the
- "a most distinguished officer, who was for forty-five years in the service of his country, and who equally distinguished himself in every sphere in which he was called upon to act. He was eminent for the good discipline and order of the ships which he commanded, he was distinguished by the gallantry and good judgment with which he conducted every naval operation in which he was engaged, he was most valuable as a public servant in the direction of naval affairs at the Admiralty. Whether at the Council Board or on the quarter deck his merits were equally eminent, and his services were equally valuable to the country."[12]
His body was returned to the family home, and he is buried beside his father and grandfather in the Dundas Vault in Old Lasswade Kirkyard, close to Melville Castle.[13]
See also
- O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). John Murray – via Wikisource. . .
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8255. Retrieved 31 December 2012. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b c d e f "William Loney RN". Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ Marshall, John (1831). Royal Naval Biography: or, memoirs of the services of all the flag-officers volume 3 part 1. London.
- ^ "No. 21456". The London Gazette. 8 July 1853. p. 1913.
- ^ a b c d Sainty, J C (1975). "'Lord High Admiral and Commissioners of the Admiralty 1660–1870', Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 4: Admiralty Officials 1660–1870". pp. 18–31. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ISBN 9781848322325.
- ^ Sondhaus 2014, p. 45.
- ^ Sondhaus 2012, p. 63.
- ^ "No. 21846". The London Gazette. 5 February 1856. p. 426.
- ^ "No. 21909". The London Gazette. 4 August 1856. p. 2699.
- ^ "No. 22106". The London Gazette. 2 March 1858. p. 1208.
- ^ "Death of Admiral Dundas, vol 163 cc521-2". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 3 June 1861. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ "The simple grave of Vice Admiral Richard Saunders Dundas, in the Dundas Vault, Old Lasswade Kirkyard". 15 February 2015. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
Sources
- William Loney RN Career History
- Sondhaus, Lawrence (12 October 2012), Naval Warfare, 1815–1914, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-134-60994-9, retrieved 6 August 2018
- Sondhaus, Lawrence (11 June 2014), Navies of Europe, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-317-86978-8, retrieved 6 August 2018
Further reading
- Russian War, 1855, Baltic: official correspondence [of Sir Richard Saunders Dundas], edited by David Bonner-Smith. Publications of the Navy Records Society, vol. 84. ([London]: Printed for the Navy Records Society, 1944).