Philip Melvill

For his son, see Philip Melvill (East India Company officer). For his grandson, the British colonial administrator, see Philip Sandys Melvill.

Philip Melvill (7 April 1762 – 27 October 1811)[1] was a nineteenth-century philanthropist of Falmouth, Cornwall.[2]

He was born in 1762 in Dunbar,[2] in East Lothian on the southeast coast of Scotland.

  1. ^ Memoirs of the Late Philip Melvill, Esq. Lieut. Gov. of Pendennis Castle, Cornwall : With an Appendix Containing Extracts From His Diaries and Letters Selected by a Friend...together with Two Letters and a Sermon, Occasioned by His Death; London : Hatchard, 1812. 322 pages. It is available online at Internet Archive. The memoirs, by an anonymous evangelical friend run to page 178, Melvill's death being recorded on page 153, the deathbed scene being described on many pages before that. The list of Subscribers is 18 pages long.
  2. ^ a b Gay, Susan E. Old Falmouth; London, Headley Bros, 1903 p.28-30, portrait of Melvill, facing p. 29.