DUNDEE 



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DUNDRUM BAY 



Dundee, Scotland. Plan of the city, showing chief 

 public buildings and docks 



Dundee (Lat. Taodunum, hill or 

 fort on the Tay) was besieged by 

 Wallace in 1297 and sacked by the 

 marquess of Montrose in 1645. In 

 1651 Gen.Monk burned the town and 

 massacred a large number of the 

 inhabitants. It was among the first 

 Scottish towns to adopt the doc- 

 trines of the Reformation, and here 

 Wishart preached during the plague 

 of 1544. See illus. facing p. 1374. 



Dundee, JOHN GRAHAM OF 

 CLAVERHOUSE, VISCOUNT (c. 1649- 

 89). Scottish soldier. The eldest 



solely with the 

 town of Dundee. 

 See Covenanters; 

 consult also Lives, 

 C. Sanford 

 Terry, 1905; M. 

 Barrington, 1911. 

 Dundonald, 

 EARL OF. Scottish 

 title borne since 

 1669 by the family 

 of Cochrane. In 

 1647 Sir W. Coch- 

 rane, a supporter 

 of Charles I, was 

 made a baron, and 

 in 1669 earl of 

 Dundonald. His 

 grandson John 

 became the 2nd 

 earl, which title 

 passed to other 

 descendants. Wil- 

 liam, the 7th earl, 

 was killed at the 



Graham of Claver- 



house, Viscount 



Dundee 



son of Sir Wil- 

 liam Graham, 

 he belonged to 

 the f.a m i 1 y 

 that had ac- 

 quired the es- 

 tate of Claver- 

 house, near 

 Dundee. He 

 was educated 

 at St. Andrews 

 University 

 and served in 

 France and 



After Lely 



Holland, distinguishing himself in 

 1674 at the battle of Seneff, where 

 he is said to have saved the life of 

 the prince of Orange. He was sent as 

 a cavalry leader to Scotland, 1 678, 

 with orders to enforce conformity 

 to the established church, and by 

 his relentless repression of the 

 Covenanters earned the name of 

 " Bluidy Clavers." In 1688 he was 

 created Viscount Dundee by James 

 II. He was an ardent supporter of 

 the Stuart cause, and was mortally 

 wounded at the battle of Killi- 

 crankie, July 17, 1689. The title 

 became extinct when his son died 

 in the same year. The use of 

 " Bonnie Dundee " as an epithet for 

 Graham dates from Sir Walter 

 Scott's song, the original old ballad 

 of that name being concerned 



siege oi Louisburg in 1758. 

 Thomas, the 8th earl, followed. 

 Archibald, the 9th earl, was a noted 

 scientist, while his son Thomas, the 

 10th earl, was the famous admiral. 

 In 1885 his grandson Douglas (b. 

 1852) became the 12th earl. A sol- 

 dier, he saw service in various cam- 

 paigns in Egypt and the Sudan, and 

 in 1899-1902 went through the S. 

 African War. In 1902-4 he com- 

 manded the Canadian militia, re- 

 turning home after a speech which 

 the authorities regarded as indis- 

 creet. His seat is Gwyrch Castle, 

 Abergele, N. Wales, and his eldest 

 son is known as Lord Cochrane. 

 Dundonald is the name of a large 

 parish in Ayrshire, which contains 

 the ruins of a castle, long the resi- 

 dence of the Cochranes. 



Dundonald, THOMAS COCHRANE, 

 10TH EARL OF (1775-1 860). British 

 admiral. He was born at Annsfield, 

 Lanark, Dec. 14, 1775, the eldest 

 son of the 9th earl. In 1793 he en- 

 tered the navy, and in 1801 he cap- 

 tured a Spanish frigate. In 1 806 he 

 became M.P. for Horiiton and in 

 1807 for Westminster, and as a 

 Radical became known by his de- 

 nunciation of abuses in the navy. 



In 1809 

 Dundonald 

 took part in 

 the attack on 

 the French 

 squadron in 

 the Basque 

 Roads. He 

 contended 

 that he had 

 not been pro- 

 perly sup- 



From an engraving ported by 



Gambier, the admiral in command. 

 A court-martial was held, by which 

 Gambier was acquitted and Coch- 

 rane consequently discredited. 



In 1814 he was unjustifiably 

 arrested with others in connexion 

 with a false rumour affecting the 

 funds, and was sentenced to a year's 

 imprisonment and a fine of 1,000. 

 He was struck off the navy list, ex- 

 pelled from the House of Commons, 

 and ignominiously removed from 

 the Order of the Bath. The amount 

 of his fine was raised by popular 

 subscriptions. 



In 1817 Cochrane accepted the 

 command of the Chilean navy and, 

 1819-23, carried out a series of 

 daring and brilliant exploits. In 

 1823-25 he commanded the Brazi- 

 lian, and, 1827-28, the Greek navy. 

 In 1831 he became 10th earl 

 of Dundonald and in 1832 was 

 granted a " free pardon " for a 

 crime which he had not committed, 

 and restored to his rank in the 

 navy. In 1847 he was reinstated in 

 the Order of the Bath. He was an 

 early advocate of the use of steam 

 in the navy, and was the author 

 of the famous secret war plan, by 

 which he claimed that he could 

 destroy any fleet or fortress in the 

 world. He died at Kensington, 

 Oct. 31, 1860, and was buried in 

 Westminster Abbey. The eldest 

 son, Thomas Barnes (1814-85) then 

 became the llth earl. 



Bibliography. Dundonald's Nar- 

 rative of Services in the Liberation 

 of Chili, Peru, Brazil, 1859, and 

 Autobiography of a Seaman, 1860 ; 

 Life, by his son and H. R. Fox 

 Bourne, 1869 ; Dundonald, J. W. 

 Fortescue, 1895 ; The Trial of Coch- 

 rane before Ellenborough, J. B. 

 Atlay, 1897. 



Dundreary, LORD. Character in 

 Tom Taylor's comedy of Our 

 American 

 Cousin, first 

 produced in 

 New York, 

 1858. Origi- 

 nally designed 

 as a subsidiary 

 part, it was so 

 developed by 

 its creator, E. 

 A. So them, 

 that it became 

 the chief char- 

 acter. Dun- 

 dreary is a 

 good - natured 

 but foolish 

 man of fashion, 

 conspicuous 

 for his side- 

 whiskers. 



Dundrum 

 Bay. Inlet of 

 co. Down, Ire- 

 land. It ex- 

 tends from St. John's Point to 

 Dullish Cove, a distance of 9 m. 

 Dundrum Harbour is on the N. 

 of the bay. On St. John's Point 

 is a lighthouse. 



Lord Dundreary, 

 as impersonated 

 by E. A. Sothern 



