Family
On 2 April 1808, he married his first cousin, Janet, only daughter and heiress of Charles Dundas, later Lord Amesbury. His first wife died in April 1846 and, in August 1847, he married Lady Emily Moreton, fourth daughter of the first Earl of Ducie. By his first wife, he had a life interest in large estates in Flintshire and Berkshire — centred on Barton Court in Kintbury — which, at his death, passed to his grandson, Mr. Charles Amesbury Deans Dundas. (Dundas' elder son, Charles Whitley Deans Dundas, predeceased him in 1856.) On the passing of the Reform Bill, he was elected member for Greenwich and represented that borough in several subsequent parliaments After being appointed as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet, resigned from the House of Commons on 29 January 1852, by appointment as Steward of the Manor of Hempholme.
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