Chronology
c.1710 Lawrence Dundas born
1738 Married Margaret Bruce, ‘Peggie’
1741 Only child, Thomas born
1745 Jacobite Rebellion, contracts for supplying the army of Cumberland
1747-48 MP for Linlithgow Burghs, unseated
1749 Buys Kerse, Falkirk in Stirlingshire
1750 Elected to the Society of the Diletantti
1754 Unsuccessfully contests Linlithgow Burghs
1756 Purchased house and lands of Castlecary, Stirlingshire
1756 Seven Years War begins, receives contracts for supplying troups in Germany
1759-62 Buys an estate in Sligo and Roscommon, Ireland for £63,696 and Ballinbreich, Fife for £31,000
1762 Death of Lawrence’s father Thomas Dundas
1762 MP Newcastle under Lyme
1762 Buys Redcar, Marske Hall & Upleatham Hall in County Cleveland
1762 Purchases Clackmannan estate in Scotland for £22,000
1762 Receives baronetcy, Baron Kerse
1763 End of Seven Years War
1763 Buys Moor Park, Hertfordshire for £25,000
1763 Buys 19 Arlington Street, London for £15,000
1763 Buys Aske Hall, Richmond, N.Yorks for £45,000
1764 Buys Loftus Estate, East Cleveland
1764-77 Governor Royal Bank of Scotland
1764 Son Thomas marries Lady Charotte Fitzwilliam, daughter of the 3rd Earl Fitzwilliam.
1766 Purchases earldom estate Orkney & Lordship of Shetland for £63,000
1768 Purchase Burray and associated lands on other Orkney islands for £16,500.
1768-80 MP for Edinburgh
1768 Buys Burray and associated lands on other Orkney islands for £16,500
1768 Begins development of the port of Grangemouth
1772 Building of Dundas Mansion, Edinburgh begins (architect William Chambers)
1773 Bought Letham from his brother, Thomas
1774 Dundas Mansion in Edinburgh completed
1780-81 MP forRichmond, North Yorkshire
1781 MP for Edinburgh
1781 Sir Lawrence Dundas dies
1784 Moor Park sold without its contents for £25,000
1794 Sale of Moor Park paintings
1794 Lawrence’s son Thomas raised to peerage as Baron Dundas of Aske
1809 Irish estates sold for £177,490
1820 Thomas Dundas dies at Aske
1825 Dundas Mansion sold for £10,000
1892 Upleatham Hall demolished
1935 19 Arlington Street, London sold
1958 Kerse demolished