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David Melville (priest)

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Nationality
  
English

Occupation
  
don, cleric,

Born
  
5 February 1813
Bloomsbury

Died
  
8 March 1904, Worcester, United Kingdom

David Melville was awarded a scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford, where after graduating he was ordained as a clergyman. He became a University don, and one of his scholars was William Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley. In 1846 he left Oxford and moved to Durham where he founded Bishop Hatfield's Hall. He married Emma Hill at Kilcoo, County Down on 28 July 1848.

Works

  • The probable course of legislation on popular education, and the position of the church in regard to it (1868)

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