Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century : being a series of biographies of distinguished or noted persons connected by birth, residence, official appointment, or otherwise, with the town of Dundee and who have died during the present century / compiled by W. Norrie.
- Norrie, W.
- Date:
- 1873
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dundee celebrities of the nineteenth century : being a series of biographies of distinguished or noted persons connected by birth, residence, official appointment, or otherwise, with the town of Dundee and who have died during the present century / compiled by W. Norrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![family in Scotland. He died at Cornhill, near Kelso, on his way home, on Aug. 4, 1804, and was buried in the family vault in Lundie Church-yard, where a small tablet records his name and the date of his death. Admiral Duncan married, in 1777, one of the daughters of Robert Dundas, Lord President of the Court of Session, and niece of Viscount Melville, by who he had several children. He was succeeded by his oldest son, who was created, at the coronation of William IV., in 1831, Earl of Camperdown. In the Dundee Magazine for Nov. 1799, we find the following paragraph :— On Thursday, the 9th inst., arrived here, from Sheerness, the Deptford tender, Lieutenant Wright, Commander. She brought the head of the Dutch ship-of-war, Vryheid, Admiral De Winter’s flag-ship. The figure is a lion as large as life—[it is really much larger]—having between the two forepaws an escutcheon, on one side of which are cut two ships’ anchors across, and on the opposite side are the letters ‘A. A.’ This interesting relic is carefully preserved as an heir-loom by the descendants of the hero of Camperdown. On the occasion of Queen Victoria’s visit to Dundee in Sept. 1844, when she passed through the woods of Camperdown on her journey northwards, the figure- head was displayed at the porter’s lodge leading to Camperdown House, and was regarded with much curiosity by her Majesty. It may also here be mentioned, that the Venerable, 74, frigate, which was Lord Duncan’s flag-ship, and in which he performed such prodigies of valour on the day of his memorable battle, was broken up in the end of the year 1838. Locally, the splendid victory gained by Admiral Duncan is not likely speedily to be forgotten. On the occasion of the converting of the East Tidal Harbour into a floating dock, the Dundee Harbour Board, at their meeting on Monday, April 4, 1859, agreed, ‘ to commemorate the brilliant achievements of the late Right Hon. Admiral Lord Viscount Duncan of Camperdown and Lundie,’ that the name ‘ Tidal Harbour of Victoria Dock be discontinued, and the words or name “ Camperdown Dock ” be substituted ; ’ and as such it has accordingly since been known. In May, 1865, a hand- some portrait of Lord Duncan was exhibited in Dundee. It was three-quarters length, and a well executed copy of the original painting in the Trinity House, Leith. It was proposed to purchase this portrait by subscription, and to present it to the Town Council, and the subscription for this purpose was headed by Mr Charles Parker, then Provost of the burgh. At a meeting of the subscribers,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28146128_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
