About Beresford Melville
Lived 1857 – 1931 (aged 73–74). Beresford Melville was a British politician.
Beresford Valentine Melville, OBE, JP (1857–1931) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Stockport from 1895 to 1906.
Born in Shelsley, Worcestershire, the son of the Rev. D. Melville, Canon and Sub-Dean of Worcester, Beresford Melville was educated at Marlborough College and Brasenose College, Oxford.
He was elected in 1895, re-elected in 1900, but stood down in 1906. He was appointed OBE in 1919.
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Who was Beresford Melville?
politician (1857-1931)
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Beresford Melville was born in 1857.
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Beresford Melville died on 1 October 1931.
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