Thomas Dundas (30 June 1750 – 3 June 1794) was a British Army Major-General and the Tory MP for Orkney and Shetland from 1771 to 1780 and from 1784 to 1790.
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Thomas Dundas was the son of Thomas Dundas (of Fingask and Carronhall), and he joined the British Army in 1766 and rose to Major of the 65th (2nd Yorskhire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot. He was a captain in Ireland when, in 1771, he replaced his father as the Northite MP for Orkney and Shetland. He obtained his lieutenant-colonelcy of the 80th Regiment of Foot (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers) in 1780, serving under Benedict Arnold in his Raid on Richmond and taking part in the capture of Williamsburg and Blandford. He later commanded the left wing at the Battle of Green Spring, and he was captured at the Siege of Yorktown in 1781. Dundas was repatriated in 1782, and he served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1793, as a Major-General in the Caribbean during the French Revolutionary Wars, and as Governor of Guadeloupe in 1794 before dying of yellow fever.