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age of the French Revolution
The ideas associated with American independence from Britain undoubtedly had an impact on a growing number of people in Scotland after 1775. Yet it was the exciting events of what ...
British Empire
At its apogee, around 1920, the British empire was the largest ever known, reputed to cover a quarter of the world's land area, and a fifth of its population. Like all mighty oaks, this one had a ...
Charles Middleton
(1726–1813).First Baron Barham, British naval administrator, and politician active in the campaign to abolish slavery. Middleton entered the Royal Navy in 1741, passing his lieutenant's examination ...
Colonial Office
The changes in the status and structure of the Colonial Office mirror the vicissitudes of the British empire. For most of the 17th cent., while the American colonies were being established, there was ...
Dundas, Henry (1742–1811) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Scottish History
(1742–1811),
the dominant Scottish politician of his age, as well as a British and imperial statesman. Born into
Dundas, Henry, first Viscount Melville (1742–1811) Reference library
An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
(1742–1811),
statesman (MP, Midlothian 1774–90; Newton 1780; Edinburgh 1790–1802), close political associate of the younger
government and administration
1. the age of management;2. the age of individualism;3. the age of the British state.1. the age of management;2. the age of individualism;3. the age of the British state.[...]
Henry Cockburn
(1779–1854).Scottish advocate, judge, and diarist, whose Memorials of his Time (1856) remains one of the most vivid accounts of Scottish politics and Edinburgh society. A well‐connected Whig who ...
Henry Mackenzie
(1745–1831),author of the influential novel, The Man of Feeling (1771). In 1773 he published The Man of the World, in which the protagonist is a villain; and in 1777 Julia de Roubigné, a novel in the ...
Indian subcontinent
1839–1900While photography reached South Asia swiftly following the public announcement of Daguerre's process in 1839, surviving work from the first decade of the medium's public existence remains ...
Macartney's embassy
To China (1792–4) was the first official mission sent from Britain and is of central importance to the history of diplomacy, trade, and cultural contact with China.Most of the ...
Robert Dundas
The only son of Henry Dundas, Robert (1771–1851) stepped into but never quite filled the paternal shoes as political manager of Scotland. Born and educated in Edinburgh, he then went ...
secretary of state
In Britain, the head of any of the more important government departments. In the United States, the head of the State Department, which deals with foreign policy.
unionism
As a political tradition, Irish unionism can be traced back to that strand of late 17th‐ and early 18th‐century patriotism which held that full political integration with Great Britain was ...
William Huskisson
(1770–1830).Huskisson's father was a country gentleman from Staffordshire, in moderate circumstances, and Huskisson had a career to make. He was in France at the outbreak of the Revolution and ...
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