Henry Dundas Quotes

“In return for supplying parliamentary votes en bloc to whichever government held sway at Westminster, the "managers" of Scotland - first the Dukes of Argyll, then the Earl of Bute, then, most successfully of all, the canny Lothian lawyer Henry Dundas - controlled patronage in Scotland and governed the country as much as its influential people thought it needed. By this means the old power of the regional magnates adapted to the new politics.”
― Angus Calder, Irish Pages, Vol. 12, No. 2: Scotland