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 Memorials of Old Haileybury College

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Date transcribed2000-00-00
Transcribed byBenda Cook
CommentPublication Date: 1894
Author: F. C. Danvers, Sir M Monier -Williams, Sir S. C. Bayley, P. Wigram, the late Brand Sapte, and many contributors.
Publisher Constable & Co.: Westminster
British Library: OIR 354.54 Held in the Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.
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No.  984    
View all other items of "Surname" with value "Melville" in "Memorials of Old Haileybury College" Surname  Melville    
Christian Names  Swinton Samuel    
Dates at Haileybury  1850-52    
Presidency  Bengal    
Career in India  1852-79    
Annuitant  1879    
Final Appointment 1  Magistrate and Collector of Fatehpur    
Mutiny Service  Joint Magistrate of Bulundshahr under Sapte, with whom he went to Meerut when forced to abandon the station on May 21. They returned after a few days and held the district till driven out again by Wali Dad Khan, Melville was afterwards sent to Seharanpore, where he worked hard under Spankie, patrolling the district, watching the Ganges against the rebels in Rohilcund, and punishing any outbreak. When help was required in Mozuffernugur Melville went with the troopers who were sent to augment the force there, and he was engaged in the severe action at Thana Bhowan. He then returned to guard the Ganges till his health failed, and so he was prevented from taking part in the re-occupation of Rohilcund.    
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