Dundas, Sir David
(1735?–1820)
- J. A. Houlding
Extract
Dundas, Sir David (1735?–1820), army officer and military writer, was born in Edinburgh, the third of the four sons of Robert Dundas, a prosperous Edinburgh merchant, and his wife, Margaret (b. 1707), daughter of Robert Watson of Muirhouse. Through his mother's family he was a half-cousin of ...