Henry Dundas, the First Viscount Melville: why and how should Scotland remember him?

It is remarkable how history has largely forgotten about Henry Dundas, the First Viscount Melville. After all, the New Town area of Edinburgh is <a href="http://historycompany.co.uk/2014/08/02/henry-dundas-lofty-hero-or-lowlife-crook/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">dominated by his statue</a>, raised up 140 feet high on a column in the middle of St Andrews Square. And there are three streets in that same area named in honour of him and his family (Dundas Street, Melville Street, and Melville Crescent). Dundas was a major political figure of his time, in the late eighteenth century. He was a close friend and ally of William Pitt the younger, and they were in government together through the British loss of the American colonies, the growth of the new empire in Asia, and the Napoleonic wars. <a href="https://medium.com/there-shall-be-an-independent-scotland/henry-dundas-the-first-viscount-melville-why-and-how-should-scotland-remember-him-d7a63b273335">Learn More</a>