Philip Melvill (East India Company officer)
Philip Melvill | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1796 |
| Died | 1882 Lostwithiel, Cornwall |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ | Bengal Army |
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,[1] Melvill was commissioned into the Bengal Army in 1815.[2]
He was appointed Military Secretary to the East India Company in 1837[2] remaining there until 1858.[3]
He retired when the East India Company was nationalized in 1857 to Ethy near Lostwithiel in Cornwall where he died.[1]
Family
Melvill's son, Philip Sandys Melvill, became Agent to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India at Baroda.[1][4] His younger son, Teignmouth Melvill, won the Victoria Cross during the Anglo-Zulu War.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d The Roll of Honour of the Melvill Family
- ^ a b Cambridge South Asian Archive
- ^ The military in British India: the development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947 By T. A. Heathcote, Page 265 Manchester University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-7190-3570-8
- ^ "No. 24303". The London Gazette. 7 March 1876.