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Melvill (Henry, Church of England clergyman, fifth son of Philip Melvill (1760-1811), an officer in the army, who was lieutenant-governor of Pendennis Castle, incumbent of Camden Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, appointed by the duke of Wellington chaplain to the Tower of London in 1840, in 1844 became principal of the East India College, Haileybury, canon residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral, rector of Barnes, Surrey, 1863-71, one of the chaplains to Queen Victoria, 1798-1871).- Melvill (Margaret, wife of Rev. Henry Melvill) Diary of a tour of the West Country & Tour of Kent, autograph manuscript, 115pp., original red morocco, gilt, small marks on upper cover, g.e., 12mo, 28th June 1860 - 31st July 1861; and 3 other diaries, including: a 1808 religious diary with a contemporary reference to Thomas Paine, and a 1890s diary of tours in Scotland and Sweden by a member of the Strickland Constable family of Wassand Hall, v.s., v.d. (4).

⁂ First mentioned, a diary of two tours, the first to the West Country, and the second to Kent. Melvill visits: Bath (C. Kemble reads prayers in Bath Cathedral), Teignmouth, Babbacombe, Bishopstone (bishop of Exeter's Palace), Luscombe, Dawlish, Ness Point (Lord de Clifford's House), Plymouth (The Hoe and Mount Edgecombe), Falmouth, Pendennis Castle (where Henry Mevill's father had been governor, "We drove under the old Gateway - and up the Parade, so much improved by the removal of the barracks. We gained admission to the greater part of the Castle house - dear old place..."), Penzance, Newquay, Tintagel ("supreme in grandeur, and wild beauty"), Clovelly, ("... a good natured woman met us, & escorted us to the 'New Inn', helping to carry our luggage - We descended the part of the steep street leading to it - all paved with rough steps at intervals"), Bideford, Honiton, Salisbury (Henry Mevill visits Stonehenge). The second, a tour to Kent, visiting: Folkestone (Henry Mevill leaves to preach at Buckingham Palace), Saltwood Castle, Walmer Castle, Dover, Hythe, Crystal Palace in Norwood, Beckenham, and the illness and subsequent death of James Cosmo Melvill at Tandridge Court, Goldstone, Surrey, on 23 July 1861.

Lot 184

Melvill (Henry, Church of England clergyman, fifth son of Philip Melvill (1760-1811), an officer in the army, who was lieutenant-governor of Pendennis Castle, incumbent of Camden Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, appointed by the duke of Wellington chaplain to the Tower of London in 1840, in 1844 became principal of the East India College, Haileybury, canon residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral, rector of Barnes, Surrey, 1863-71, one of the chaplains to Queen Victoria, 1798-1871).- Melvill (Margaret, wife of Rev. Henry Melvill) Diary of a tour of the West Country & Tour of Kent, autograph manuscript, 115pp., original red morocco, gilt, small marks on upper cover, g.e., 12mo, 28th June 1860 - 31st July 1861; and 3 other diaries, v.s., v.d. (4).  

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Melvill (Henry, Church of England clergyman, fifth son of Philip Melvill (1760-1811), an officer in the army, who was lieutenant-governor of Pendennis Castle, incumbent of Camden Chapel, Camberwell, Surrey, appointed by the duke of Wellington chaplain to the Tower of London in 1840, in 1844 became principal of the East India College, Haileybury, canon residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral, rector of Barnes, Surrey, 1863-71, one of the chaplains to Queen Victoria, 1798-1871).- Melvill (Margaret, wife of Rev. Henry Melvill) Diary of a tour of the West Country & Tour of Kent, autograph manuscript, 115pp., original red morocco, gilt, small marks on upper cover, g.e., 12mo, 28th June 1860 - 31st July 1861; and 3 other diaries, including: a 1808 religious diary with a contemporary reference to Thomas Paine, and a 1890s diary of tours in Scotland and Sweden by a member of the Strickland Constable family of Wassand Hall, v.s., v.d. (4).

⁂ First mentioned, a diary of two tours, the first to the West Country, and the second to Kent. Melvill visits: Bath (C. Kemble reads prayers in Bath Cathedral), Teignmouth, Babbacombe, Bishopstone (bishop of Exeter's Palace), Luscombe, Dawlish, Ness Point (Lord de Clifford's House), Plymouth (The Hoe and Mount Edgecombe), Falmouth, Pendennis Castle (where Henry Mevill's father had been governor, "We drove under the old Gateway - and up the Parade, so much improved by the removal of the barracks. We gained admission to the greater part of the Castle house - dear old place..."), Penzance, Newquay, Tintagel ("supreme in grandeur, and wild beauty"), Clovelly, ("... a good natured woman met us, & escorted us to the 'New Inn', helping to carry our luggage - We descended the part of the steep street leading to it - all paved with rough steps at intervals"), Bideford, Honiton, Salisbury (Henry Mevill visits Stonehenge). The second, a tour to Kent, visiting: Folkestone (Henry Mevill leaves to preach at Buckingham Palace), Saltwood Castle, Walmer Castle, Dover, Hythe, Crystal Palace in Norwood, Beckenham, and the illness and subsequent death of James Cosmo Melvill at Tandridge Court, Goldstone, Surrey, on 23 July 1861.

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