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 Solicitor-General for Scotland, 1766 : M.P. for Midlothian and Newtown from 1774–90 : Lord Advocate, 1775–83 : Chairman in 1781 of a Committee of Inquiry into the Carnatic war, and the state of the British possessions in S. India : in May, 1782, carried Resolutions for the removal of Warren Hastings from the Governor-Generalship : an order to this effect was made, but cancelled : in 1783 he brought in a Bill to regulate the Government of India, which was given up for a Government measure with the same object. When Pitt's East India Bill was passed in 1784, Dundas became a Member of the Board of Control, and lienceforth always had a potential voice in Indian affairs : he defended Warren Hastings in 1786, when Burke attacked his conduct in connexion with the war against the Rohillas : he called Hastings the "Saviour of India" : he was Home Secretary, 1791 : President of the Board of Control, June 22, 1793, to April 25, 1801 : in 1793 his speech in defence of the Government of India and in favour of the renewal of the East India Company's monopoly was highly applauded by Pitt : Secretary for War. 1794–1801 : Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1800 : created Viscount Melville in 1802 : First Lord of the Admiralty, 1804–5 : was impeached for malversation of public moneys, 1806, and acquitted, and restored in 1807 to the Privy Council, from which his name had been removed : he refused an Earldom : died May 28, 1811. His influence over Indian affairs was great during his connexion, either as Member, or as President, with the Board of Control, though Mr. James Mill contests the value of his advice.

MELVILLE, HENRY DUNDAS, THIRD VISCOUNT (1801–1876)

General : born Feb. 25, 1801 : son of the second Viscount and grandson of the first Viscount Melville (q.v.) : entered the Army, 1819 : commanded the 83rd regt. in Canada, 1837–8 : and the Bombay column of the Panjab Army, at the siege of Multan and at Gujarat, 1848–9: C.B. and thanks of Parliament and the E. I. Co. : succeeded as Peer, 1851 : commanded in Scotland, 1856 : Governor of Edinburgh Castle, 1860 : G.C.B. 1865 : A.D.C. to King William IV and Queen Victoria : died Feb. 1, 1876.

MENPES, MORTIMER ( ? - )

Eminent painter : has travelled round the world : author of many illustrated books, including World Pictures, 1902 : The Darbar, 1903 : R.I. : R.E. : F.R.G.S.

MEREWETHER, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (1825–1880)

Son of Serjeant Henry Alworth Merewether : born Feb. 6, 1825 : educated at Westminster : joined the Bombay Army in 1841 : served with the 21st N.I. in the Sind campaign of 1842–3 : present at the battle of Hyderabad : in the S. Mahratta campaign : in the Sind Irregular Horse on the Upper Sind frontier from 1847 : defeated a large body of Bugtis : at the siege and capture of Multan, in 1848–9 : at Gujarat and the pursuit and surrender of the Sikhs : in charge of the Sind frontier in 1856, crushed tribal re- bellions and insubordination of his troops : C.B., 1860 : Military Secretary to the Bombay Government, 1861 : Resident at Aden in 1865 : conducted active operations against the Fudhli tribes : and the negotiations with King Theodore of Abyssinia, 1866–7 : commanded the pioneer force in Abyssinia, 1867 : K.C.S.I., 1868, and Chief Commissioner in Sind 1868–77 : Member of the Council of India from Nov. 1877 : died Oct. 4, 1880. He is well remembered in Sind and in Bombay as a keen soldier of the school of John Jacob; a skilful Political Officer, his administration was popular and based upon full knowledge of the country.

MERIVALE, HERMAN (1806–1874)

Born Nov. 8, 1806 : son of John Herman Merivale : educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Oxford (Scholar) : Ireland Scholar, 1825 : Fellow of Balliol College, 1828 : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1832 : Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, 1837, and lectured on "Colonization and Colonies" : Assistant Under Secretary for the Colonies, 1847 : permanent Under Secretary, 1848 : transferred in 1859 to the permanent Under-Secretaryship for India : C.B. : D.C.L. Oxford, 1870 : died Feb. 8, 1874 : he devoted himself to literature as opportunities offered : completed Parkes'