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'''Philip Sandys Melvill''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CSI}} (29 November 1827 – 2 January 1906) was a British colonial administrator in [[British Raj|British India]] and a member of [[Henry Lawrence's "Young Men"]].<br />
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Melvill was born in Islington, London, the son of [[Philip Melvill (East India Company officer)|Philip Melvill]], an East India Company officer and [[Military Secretary to the India Office]].<ref name="melvill">{{cite book |last1=Joubert de la Ferté |first1=Eliza Jane Melvill |title=The Melvill family, a roll of honour of the descendants of Captain Philip Melvill, lieut-governor of Pendennis castle |date=1920 |publisher=London : A. L. Humphreys |page=49 |url=https://archive.org/details/melvillfamilyrol00joub/page/n73/mode/2up/search/Philip+Sandys |accessdate=31 January 2020}}</ref><br />
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He was educated at [[Rugby school|Rugby]] and [[East India Company College|Haileybury]]. He arrived in India on 4 October 1846 and entered the [[Bengal Civil Service]] as an assistant to Sir [[Henry Montgomery Lawrence|Henry Lawrence]], Resident at [[Lahore]] and Agent to the Governor General of the [[North-West Frontier (military history)|North West Frontier]].<ref name="dib">Buckland, C.E, ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' (London, 1906), page 104</ref> He developed a close relationship with Lawrence, and was hand-picked to become one of his "Young Men", a group of agents tasked with maintaining order and furthering British interests in the [[Punjab (region)|Punjab]] and North West Frontier. He held various posts in the Punjab Commission, working his way up from a settlement officer to Commissioner, between 1846 and 1975, working the districts of [[Hoshiarpur]], [[Ambala]] and [[Jullundur]].<ref>''The India List and India Office List''</ref> He served as a judge of the chief court of the Punjab. He was a Member of the Commission for the [[The Baroda Crisis|trial of the Gaekwar of Baroda]] in 1875. That same year he was appointed [[Baroda Residency|Resident of Baroda]], where he remained until his retirement in 1881.<br />
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In 1876, he was appointed a Companion of the [[Order of the Star of India]].<ref name="melvill"/><br />
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In 1851, he married Eliza Johnstone in [[Jullundur]] and they had two sons and six daughters.<ref name="dib"/> His younger brother was [[Teignmouth Melvill]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|VC}}.<br />
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