Background
Dundas was the oldest son of Thomas Dundas of Fingask. His father was a bailie of Edinburgh and a woollen draper in the Luckenbooths.
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Career
The family"s lands in Perthshire were lost in the 17th century, but the bailie bought lands in Stirlingshire. Thomas became a burgess of Edinburgh in 1734, and deputy Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1744 to 1754. After her death he remarried, to Lady Janet Maitland, daughter of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale.
The younger Thomas went on to become a notable general in the British Army, serving briefly as Governor of Guadeloupe before his early death.
The other son, Charles Dundas, was an Member of Parliament for nearly 50 years before being ennobled as Baron Amesbury.
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Dundas bought the Carronhall estate in 1749, but his career remained dependant on his increasingly powerful younger bother, in whose interest he was elected in 1768 as the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Orkney and Shetland.
