Anne Dundas, Viscountess Melville

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Anne Dundas, Viscountess Melville (formerly Huck / Huck-Saunders; died 10 September 1841)Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003. Page 2663 was the wife of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, and was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz,{{cite web|url=http://www.history.ac.uk/office/queencharlotte.html|title=Household of Queen Charlotte 1761-1818|website=Institute of Historical Research|access-date=2018-08-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315014643/http://www.history.ac.uk/office/queencharlotte.html|archive-date=15 March 2007|url-status=dead}} wife of King George III of the United Kingdom, from 1813 to the queen's death in 1818.

Anne was one of the two daughters of Dr Richard Huck-Saunders (born Richard Huck) and his wife, the former Jane Kinsey. Her great-uncle was Admiral Sir Charles Saunders. Her elder sister Jane became Countess of Westmorland.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/lifeofadmiralsir00salm/lifeofadmiralsir00salm_djvu.txt|title=Life of Admiral Sir Charles Saunders|author=Edward Salmon|year=1914|access-date=5 August 2018}} Through the admiral, his wife's maternal uncle, Dr Huck-Saunders and his wife acquired a sizeable inheritance, which passed to their daughters.Dictionary of National Biography, volume 50, page 329 - entry by William Wilfrid Webb.

Anne married the future viscount on 29 August 1796, when he was an MP. He inherited the viscountcy in 1811, making her a viscountess. The couple had six children, including:

She died at Melville Castle in Scotland.{{cite book|title=The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IGUdAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA445|year=1841|publisher=F. Jefferies|pages=445–}} Her husband outlived her.

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