Sir David Dundas, 2nd Baronet

Sir David Barnett Dundas, 2nd Baronet, QC, FRSE (28 August 1803 – 30 March 1877) was a Scottish advocate, Liberal politician and agricultural improver.

At the time, it was the normal practice that accepting ministerial office caused a by-election; he was re-elected on 28 July.

In February 1846, he was knighted, a traditional perquisite of the office, but he resigned the position in March 1848 due to ill-health and returned to the backbenches.

[2] In 1852, he commissioned the architect William Burn to completely remodel the mansion at Dunira and lived there until the late 1860s.

His retirement from politics was not permanent; when Stafford was elevated to the House of Lords in March 1861 on becoming the third Duke of Sutherland, Dundas returned to Parliament.