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{{Infobox military person
| name = Philip Melvill
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| birth_date = 26 October 1795<ref name="birth">''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975''</ref>
| death_date = 4 October 1882 (aged 86)
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| birth_place = [[Topsham, Devon]], England<ref name="1871census">''1871 England Census''</ref><ref name="1881census">''1881 England Census''</ref>
| death_place = [[Lostwithiel]], [[Cornwall]]
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| allegiance ={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
| branch =[[Bengal Army]]
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'''Philip Melvill''' (26 October 1795 – 4 October 1882) was a British [[Bengal Army]] officer who went on to be [[Military Secretary to the India Office|Military Secretary to the East India Company]].

==Military career==
Born the fourth son of Captain [[Philip Melvill]],<ref name=roll>[https://archive.org/stream/melvillfamilyrol00joub/melvillfamilyrol00joub_djvu.txt The Roll of Honour of the Melvill Family]</ref> Melvill was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] into the [[Bengal Army]] in 1815.<ref name=papers>[http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/overview.html Cambridge South Asian Archive]</ref> His elder brothers included Sir [[James Cosmo Melvill]] and [[Henry Melvill]]. Sir [[Philip Melvill]] was his younger brother.<ref>{{cite web|title=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|location=London |publisher=[[Hatchards|Hatchard]]|year=1812|url=https://archive.org/details/memoirsoflatephi00melvuoft}}</ref>

He was appointed [[Military Secretary to the India Office|Military Secretary to the East India Company]] in 1837<ref name=papers/> remaining there until 1858.<ref>{{cite book | last=Heathcote | first=T.A. | title=The Military in British India: The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947 | publisher=Manchester University Press | series=Manchester history of the British army | year=1995 | isbn=978-0-7190-3570-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSK8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA265 | page=265}}</ref>

He retired when the [[East India Company]] was [[nationalized]] in 1857 to [[Lerryn|Ethy]] near [[Lostwithiel]] in [[Cornwall]] where he died.<ref name=roll/>

==Family==
Melvill's eldest son, [[Philip Sandys Melvill]], became Agent to the [[Governor-General of India|Viceroy and Governor-General of India]] at [[Vadodara|Baroda]].<ref name=roll/><ref>{{London Gazette|issue=24303|page=1787|date=7 March 1876}}</ref> His younger son, [[Teignmouth Melvill]], won the [[Victoria Cross]] during the [[Anglo-Zulu War]].<ref name=roll/>

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