Lord Robert Dundas, of Arniston

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Wikipedia Biographical Summary

"Robert Dundas of Arniston, the elder (1685–1753) was a Scottish judge...

...Robert Dundas was the second son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, a judge of the court of session, who died in 1726, by Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Sinclair of Stevenson, was born on 9 December 1685...

...Dundas married, twice. In 1712, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Robert Watson of Muirhouse, who, with four of his children, died in January 1734 of small-pox, and by her he had a son, Robert, afterwards lord president, and other children...

...On 3 June 1734, he married Anne, daughter of Sir William Gordon, bart., of Invergordon, by whom he had five sons and a daughter. One of these sons, Henry, was treasurer of the navy and 1st Viscount Melville."

SOURCE: Wikipedia contributors, 'Robert Dundas of Arniston, the elder', Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 28 October 2012, 20:37 UTC, <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Dundas_of_Arniston...> [accessed 12 November 2012]

Other References

• "DUNDAS, Robert (1685-1753), of Arniston, Edinburgh.", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
• An Historical Account of the Senators of the College of Justice: From Its Institution in MDXXXII; by George Brunton, David Haig; 1832; Page 507
• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 489