About Sir Ronald Henry Melville
Lived 1912 – 2001 (aged 88–89). Sir Ronald Henry Melville was a British civil servant.
Sir Ronald Henry Melville, KCB (9 March 1912 – 4 June 2001) was an English civil servant. Educated at Charterhouse and Magdalene College, Cambridge, he entered the civil service in 1934 as an official in the Air Ministry. For much of the Second World War, he was private secretary to the Secretary of State for Air. In 1960, he moved to the War Office, and in 1964 he was appointed Second Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence. He then served as a Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation from 1966 In 1970, he was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Aviation Supply,
An excellent shot, he represented Scotland in the Elcho Shield match for nearly 50 years, making his first appearance at the age of 22.
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