MELVILL

Henry (5 son of Philip Melvill 1762–1811, lieut. governor of Pen dennis castle Falmouth 1797–1811). b. Pen dennis castle 14 Sep. 1798; a sizar of St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1817; migrated to St. Peter’s coll., fellow and tutor 1822–32; second wrangler 1821, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. 1836; incumbent of Camden chapel, Camber well, London 1829–43; chaplain at the Tower of London 6 April 1840 to March 1863; principal of East India college, Haileybury 1843 till college was closed 7 Dec. 1857; Golden lecturer at St. Margaret’s, Lothbury, London 1850–6; one of chaplains to the queen 13 June 1853 to death; canon residentiary of St. Paul’s 21 April 1856 to death; R. of Barnes, Surrey 1863 to 1870; the most popular preacher in London and one of the greatest rhetoricians of his time; author of Sermons 2 vols. 1833–8, 6 ed. 1870; Sermons on certain of the le prominent facts and references in sacred story 2 vols. 1843–5, new ed. 1872; The Golden lectures for the years 1850 to 1856, 6 vols. 1856, new ed. 1876; Selections from the sermons preached in the parish church of Barnes and in the cathedral of St. Paul’s 2 vols. 1872. d. Amen corner, St. Paul’s churchyard, London 9 Feb. 1871. bur. St. Paul’s cathedral 15 Feb. Grant’s Metropolitan Pulpit , ii 1–21 (1839); Ritchie’s London Pulpit (1858) 60–8; Johnson’s Popular Preachers (1863) 189–201; The lamps of the temple 3 ed. (1856) 210–41; Roose’s Ecclesiastic a (1842) 410–13; I.L.N. iv 48 (1844) portrait , lviii 163 (1871); Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. pp. 345–8, 1279–80; Illust. news of the world (1862), portrait .