Dundas The Hon Sir Richard Saunders

Dundas, The Hon. Sir Richard Saunders, British naval officer, was second son of Viscount Melville, and was born in 1802. He became a com mander in 1823 and a captain in 1824, and in the latter capacity served with credit in China in 1841. In 1853.he was made rear-admiral, and in 1855 he commanded the Baltic Fleet against Russia. He died a vice-admiral in 1861. Admiral Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas, who was a son of Dr. James Deans, of Calcutta, and who was born in 1785, assumed the name of Dundas on his marriage in 1808. He was commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, anc], during the early part of the Russian war, in the Black Sea, and he died in 1862. He was not related to the officer above-mentioned.