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British East India Company Army officer
Philip Melvill (East India Company officer)
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British East India Company Army officer
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Place of death
Lostwithiel, Cornwall, Cornwall, South West England
Age
86 years
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Biography
Philip Melvill (1796–1882) was a Bengal Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary to the East India Company.
Military career
Born the fourth son of Captain Philip Melvill, Melvill was commissioned into the Bengal Army in 1815.
He was appointed Military Secretary to the East India Company in 1837 remaining there until 1858.
He retired when the East India Company was nationalized in 1857 to Ethy near Lostwithiel in Cornwall where he died.
Family
Melvill's son, Philip Sandys Melvill, became Agent to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at Baroda. His younger son, Teignmouth Melvill, won the Victoria Cross during the Anglo-Zulu War.
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