Talk:George Dundas (Royal Navy officer)

The article presently says that Dundas appears in the novels of Patrick O'Brian. However in the list of recurring characters in the Aubrey–Maturin series he is described as son of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville and brother of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville - which of course this Dundas wasn't. I've never read any of the novels, so is the character that appears in them a) this George Heneage Dundas, and his relationship to the Dundases of Melville is wrongly identified, or b) a fictional Heneage Dundas, and nothing to do with the subject of this article? Opera hat (talk) 00:45, 28 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

They were distantly related. Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville was son of Robert Dundas, Lord Arniston, son of Robert Dundas, son of Sir James Dundas of Arniston, son of Sir James Dundas of Arniston, son of George Dundas 17th of Dundas, son of Sir James Dundas 16th of Dundas, son of Sir William Dundas 15th of Dundas, son of John Dundas 14th of Dundas, son of Sir Archibald Dundas 13th of Dundas, son of Sir James Dundas 11th of Dundas, who was also father of Alexander Dundas of Fingask, father of Alexander Dundas of Fingask, father of Alexander Dundas of Fingask, father of Archibald Dundas of Fingask, father of Archibald Dundas of Fingask, father of Sir John Dundas of Fingask, father of John Dundas of Fingask, father of Thomas Dundas, father of Thomas Dundas of Fingask, father of Sir Lawrence Dundas, 1st Baronet, father of Thomas Dundas, 1st Baron Dundas, father of George Heneage Dundas. Opera hat (talk) 11:25, 30 December 2009 (UTC)Reply

A bit of both, possibly. He originally appears in Master and Commander presumably as himself, as the commander of Calpe after the battle of Algeciras (and he later appears as the Captain of Edinburgh in Treason's Harbour). But in Post Captain (the second book), he has become the son of the First Lord - I would guess it's not a mistake on O'Brian's part so much as a coincidence of names that he found too good to resist, but I don't know how you'd prove or disprove that. 94.173.16.196 (talk) 20:15, 15 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

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