Michael Linning Melville

"Michael Melville" redirects here. For the test pilot, see Mike Melvill.

Michael Linning Melville born Edinburgh, was a Scots Barrister, Judge and Lieutenant Governor of Sierra Leone. He was commissioned by King William IV of the United Kingdom to suppress the slave trade by force off the West Coast of Africa.

Married to Elizabeth Helen, daughter of Randall William McDonnell Callender (d.1858), of Craigforth House Stirlingshire & [Ardkinglas] Argyle, & had issue (1) Robert Melville (judge, of Hartfield Grove Sussex, & Ashford Hall Salops), (2) Elizabeth (married Arthur Champernowne of Dartington Hall, Devon), & (3) Barbara (died young).

Michael Linning Melville & his wife Elizabeth both died in 1876 & are buried in the old churchyard at Dartington Hall in South Devonshire, England. (Their son Robert is buried at the new Dartington church, built by Arthur Melville Champernowne (a grandson of Michael & Elizabeth Melville).

Preceded by Alexander Findlay

Lieutenant Governor of Sierra Leone 1833–1834

Succeeded by Octavius Temple

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