APPENDIX. 37 



I. Account of the Right Hotiourabk Robert Dun das of 

 Arnijlon, Lord Prejident of the Court of SeJJion in Scot land ^ 

 F. R. S. Edin. l^c. 



[Read by Alex. Fraser f tiler, Efq; Advocate, March 17. 1788.] 



ROBERT DUNDAS of Arniflon, late Lord Prefident of 

 the Court of Seffion, was the defcendant of a family to 

 which the hiflorian and genealogift have affigned an origin of 

 high antiquity and fplendor *, but which has been ftill more 

 remarkable for producing a feries of men, eminently diftin- 

 guilhed for their public fervices in the higheft civil offices of 

 this country. If the pride of anceftry is ever allowable, it is 

 where thofe anceftors have adorned the flatlons which they 

 filled, by that genuine merit which, independently of rank, 

 muft have entitled them to the refpecfl and efteem of their fel- 

 low-citizens. Such were the progenitors of the late Lord Pre- 

 fident, whofe family has produced a fucceflion of men, who, 

 for four generations, have difcharged the higheft offices of the 

 law in this country with equal abilities and integrity. 



As the merits of fome of thefe eminent perfons entitle them 

 to more than general eulogy, and as there are fome circum- 

 flances of their lives and charaders too honourable, and indeed 

 too exemplary to be pafTed over in filence, I fhall here mention 



* Sir James Dundas, firft Baron of Arniflon, Governor of Berwick, and knighted 

 by King James VI. was the third fon of George Bundas of Dundas, (by Catherine, 

 daughter of Laurence Lord Oliphant) the fixteenth in defcent from the Dunears Earls 

 of March, who, according to Sir Ja. Dalrympie, Crawfurd, Nisbet, &c, derive 

 their origin from the Saxon Kings of England. 



