Michael Linning Melville

Michael Linning Melville, born in Ireland, 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 (died 1858), of Craigforth House Stirlingshire and Ardkinglas House, Argyle, and had issue (1) Robert Melville (judge, of Hartfield Grove Sussex, and Ashford Hall Salops), (2) Elizabeth (married Arthur Champernowne of Dartington Hall, Devon), and (3) Barbara (died young).

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. (Their son Robert is buried at the new Dartington church, built by Arthur Melville Champernowne (a grandson of Michael and Elizabeth Melville).