• Introduction
• Scotland Office
• Past Secretaries
• Dover House
• - The Site
• - The Building
• - Sir Matthew Featherstonehaugh
    and others 1756-1788
• - Frederick, Duke of York 1788-1792
• - The Melbourne family 1793-1830
• - The Dover Family 1830-1885
• - The Scottish Office 1885-1999
• - The Scotland Office 1999-Present

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Mr Ellis, shortly after having bought Melbourne House, became in 1831 Lord Dover. Not only was the name of the House changed, but he had his Coat of Arms embodied in the replastered ceilings of two of the three great first floor rooms. Until his untimely death in 1848, the House remained one of the great Houses of London. His widow continued to live in the House until her death in 1860, after which the house was occupied by the son of Lord Dover, Viscount Clifden. He died in 1866, and from then until 1885 the House was occupied by his widow who had married Sir Walter George Stirling in 1875.