Michael Linning Melville
Lawyer, Person
Who is Michael Linning Melville?
Michael Linning Melville, born in 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 Callander, of Craigforth House Stirlingshire and Ardkinglas House, Argyle, and had issue Robert Melville, Elizabeth, and Barbara.
Michael Linning Melville and his wife Elizabeth both died in 1876 and are buried in the old churchyard at Dartington Hall in South Devonshire, England.
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