Charles Mellish (6 July 1737 – 29 December 1796) was a British lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1774 to 1784.
[1] He was the only surviving son of William Mellish, MP, of Blyth, Nottinghamshire, and his first wife, Kitty da Costa.
This was a plantation producing sugar and rum which held 278 enslaved people in 1809.Legacies of British Slave Ownership Mellish was interested in antiquarian study, particularly in the history of Nottinghamshire.
Eventually, Mellish disinherited his elder son, Joseph Charles, due to the latter's extravagance.
The neighbouring property, known as Hodsock Priory, and which Mellish had also owned, ended up in the hands of his oldest daughter, Anne, who rebuilt the house there.