RA Collection: People and Organisations
Lawyer; politician. Solicitor General for Scotland 1766-75. M.P. 1774-9. Lord Advocate 1775. Treasurer of the Navy 1783-1800. Member of the Board of Control for India 1784-1801. M.P. 1790-1802. Home Secretary 1791-4; Secretary of War 1794-1801. Created first Viscount Melville 1802. First Lord of the Admiralty 1804-5.
Born: 1742
Died: 1811
Gender: Male
Joseph Farington, to Sir Thomas Lawrence, at His Excellency, the Lord Stewart's, Vienna
5 Jan 18[19]
Item LAW/2/249
Henry Dundas, Downing Street, to [unknown member of the Royal Family]
31 Mar [?1790's]
Item LAW/1/77
Ozias Humphry, Knightsbridge, near London, to Palmer & Co.
18 Jun 1802
Item HU/8/86-87
Wm. Cabell, Whitehall, to Ozias Humphry
4 Aug 1798
Item HU/8/75