MELLISH, George Lilly (2 son of William Mellish an officer in the army). b. Guernsey 1834 or 1835; ed. at Elizabeth coll. Guernsey, at Exeter coll. Oxf. 1852, scholar of Pembroke coll. 1854; rowed No. 7 in Oxford boat against Cambridge 8 April 1854; resident magistrate Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand. d. Christ Church, Dec. 1881.
MELLISH, Richard Charles. Clerk in foreign office 5 Jany. 1824; attached to embassy at Constantinople, March 1828 to March 1830; gentleman usher to queen Adelaide 10 Nov. 1834 to 2 Dec. 1849; sec. to earl of Wilton’s mission to court of Saxony 17 Sep. 1842; K.H. April 1842; retired on a superannuation allowance 1 Jany. 1855. d. Eaton place, London 29 Dec. 1865. Foreign office list (1866) 177.
MELLON, Alfred. b. Birmingham 7 or 17 April 1820; member of orchestra of Birmingham theatre 1835, leader 7 years; a violinist in the opera house, London; musical director at Adelphi theatre, London 1844; leader of the ballet music at Royal Italian opera, Covent Garden 1847; musical director at Haymarket theatre; conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English opera company at Covent Garden 1857–9, where was produced his opera Victorine 1859; conductor of the Musical Society; conductor of a series of promenade concerts given under his name at Covent Garden 1865, also of a series at Lyceum Aug. to Sep. 1861; conductor of Liverpool philharmonic society, Sep. 1865; (m. Sarah Jane Woolgar, actress b. 1824); composer of My pretty bark, a song 1846; Crowned with clusters of the vine, a glee for four voices 1850; The heart’s appeal, canzonet 1850; The overture to Uncle Tom’s cabin 1853; Rondo, the siren of the ball 1857; The May waltz 1865; many of the songs, pieces of dance music &c. from the opera of Victorine were also published in 1860. d. The Vale, King’s road, Chelsea 27 March 1867. bur. Brompton cemet. 2 April. Era 31 March 1867 p. 10 and 7 April p. 11; Illust. sporting news, iv 441 (1865) portrait, v 504 (1866), portrait; Illust. Times 6 April 1867 p. 216, portrait.
MELLON, Henry. b. Dublin 7 April 1808; midshipman during two years; first appeared as Steadfast in The heir at law; leading tragedian on the York circuit; on the Norwich circuit; joined Macready’s company at Drury Lane, Dec. 1841, soon after played the duke in Merchant of Venice; acted Irish characters at Manchester, Edinburgh and Dublin; acted under Phelps and Greenwood at Sadler’s Wells 1844–60; played captain Fairweather in Boucicault’s Streets of London, at Princess’s 1 Aug. 1864; played The ghost in Hamlet, at Lyceum 11 Nov. 1867; acted Dr. Trotway in W. S. Gilbert’s Randall’s Thumb, at Court theatre 25 Jany. 1871. d. Park lodge, Clyde road, Tottenham, Middlesex 25 Nov. 1876. Theatrical Times, ii 321, 338 (1847), portrait; E. L. Blanchard’s Life, i 294, 347, ii 393, 462 (1891).
MELLOR, Enoch (son of James Mellor, woollen manufacturer). b. Salendine Nook near Huddersfield 20 Nov. 1823; ed. Huddersfield coll. 1838–41 and at Edinb. univ. 1841; M.A. 1845, D.D. 1870; congregational minister of the Square road ch. Halifax 1848–61; minister at Liverpool 1861–7 and again at Halifax 1867 to death; chairman of congregational union of England and Wales 1863; author of Not your own, a sermon 1858, 2 ed. 1858; The atonements, its relation to pardon 1859, to which two replies were made; The searcher searched, or H. Carpenter confronted with the truth 1862; Ritualism and its related dogmas 1867; Disestablishment, what good will it do? a reply to canon Ryles 1873; In the footsteps of heroes and other sermons 1885. d. Shaw Royd, Halifax 26 Oct. 1881. Congregationalist, ix 617–20 (1880) portrait, x 1000–1011 (1881); E. Mellor’s The hem of Christ’s garment (1882), biographical sketch pp. v–xxxi; Congregational Year book (1882) pp. 315–8.
MELLOR, Sir John (only son of John Mellor of Leicester, d. 1861). b. Hollinwood house, Oldham 1 Jany. 1809; ed. at Leicester gr. sch.; pupil of Thomas Chitty special pleader 4 years; barrister I.T. 7 June 1833, bencher 21 Nov. 1851 to Dec. 1861 and 1877 to death; went Midland circuit, became leader 1851; recorder of Warwick May 1848, resigned April 1852; recorder of Leicester Feb. 1855 to 1861; Q.C. 8 July 1851; serjeant-at-law 13 Jany. 1862; contested Warwick 1852 and Coventry 1857; M.P. Great Yarmouth 1857–9, M.P. Nottingham 1859–61; justice of court of queen’s bench 3 Dec. 1861, retired 11 June 1879 on pension of £3500; knighted by patent 11 June 1862; member of special commission which tried the Fenian prisoners at Manchester 1867; one of the judges who tried Arthur Orton for perjury in the Tichborne case 1873; P.C. 26 June 1879; acted frequently as arbitrator in important cases; author of Lectures on the Christian church before the reformation 1857; John Selden 1859; Suggestions as to oaths 1882. d. 16 Sussex sq. Bayswater, London 26 April 1887. bur. Kingsdown churchyard, Dover 30 April. Law Journal, xxii 250–1, 259–60 (1887); Times 28 April 1887 p. 5.
MELVILL, Henry (5 son of Philip Melvill 1762–1811, lieut. governor of Pendennis castle Falmouth 1797–1811). b. Pendennis castle 14 Sep. 1798; a sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1817; migrated to St. Peter’s coll., fellow and tutor 1822–32; second wrangler 1821, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1836; incumbent of Camden chapel, Camberwell, London 1829–43; chaplain at the Tower of London 6 April 1840 to March 1863; principal of East India college, Haileybury 1843 till college was closed 7 Dec. 1857; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury, London 1850–6; one of chaplains to the queen 13 June 1853 to death; canon residentiary of St. Paul’s 21 April 1856 to death; R. of Barnes, Surrey 1863 to 1870; the most popular preacher in London and one of the greatest rhetoricians of his time; author of Sermons 2 vols. 1833–8, 6 ed. 1870; Sermons on certain of the less prominent facts and references in sacred story 2 vols. 1843–5, new ed. 1872; The Golden lectures for the years 1850 to 1856, 6 vols. 1856, new ed. 1876; Selections from the sermons preached in the parish church of Barnes and in the cathedral of St. Paul’s 2 vols. 1872. d. Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 9 Feb. 1871. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 15 Feb. Grant’s Metropolitan Pulpit, ii 1–21 (1839); Ritchie’s London Pulpit (1858) 60–8; Johnson’s Popular Preachers (1863) 189–201; The lamps of the temple 3 ed. (1856) 210–41; Roose’s Ecclesiastica (1842) 410–13; I.L.N. iv 48 (1844) portrait, lviii 163 (1871); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp. 345–8, 1279–80; Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait.
MELVILL, Sir James Cosmo (brother of the preceding). b. Guernsey 1792; entered civil service of H.E.I.C. at home Feb. 1808; auditor of India accounts 1824; financial sec. to H.E.I.C. 1834; sec. to H.E.I.C. 1836–58; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1841; K.C.B. 5 Sep. 1853. d. Tandridge court, Godstone, Surrey 23 July 1860.
MELVILL, Sir Maxwell (son of rev. Henry Melvill 1798–1871). b. 10 Oct. 1833; ed. at Tonbridge sch. 1846–51, at Trin. coll. Camb. 1851–3, and at Haileybury coll. 1853–5; entered Bombay civil service Nov. 1855; assist. judge at Konkan 1858–60; assist. commissioner in Scinde 1862–6, judicial comr. in Scinde 1866–9; puisne judge of high court at Bombay 1871 to March 1883; judge in Parsee matrimonial court 1873–83; member of council of governor of Bombay 8 April 1884 to death; C.S.I. 1886; K.C.I.E. 15 Feb. 1887. d. of cholera Ganish Kind house near Poona 5 Aug. 1887. bur. Kirkee cemetery 6 Aug. Phirozsha Dhanjibhoy’s Life of sir M. Melville (1887), portrait; Times 8 Aug. 1887 p. 5, 15 Aug. p. 6.
MELVILL, Teignmouth (son of Philip Melvill of H.E.I.C.S., d. Ethy, Liskeard 4 Oct. 1882). b. 1843; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1865; ensign 24 foot 20 Oct. 1865, lieut. 2 Dec. 1868 to death, adjutant 7 March 1873 to death; at Isandlana, Natal, he saved the colours, which were found wrapped around his dead body 22 Jany. 1879; Sarah Elizabeth his widow granted civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1879; contributed to Baily’s mag. under pseudonym of ‘Green Facings.’ Graphic xix 272 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv 277, 282, 554, 560 (1879), portrait; F. C. Burnand’s The A.D.C. (1880) 256–7.