Michael Linning Melville

Michael Linning Melville 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.

Melville is buried in the old churchyard at Dartington Hall in South Devonshire, England.

Preceded by Alexander Findlay	Lieutenant Governor of Sierra Leone 1833–1834	Succeeded by Octavius Temple

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