Edith Mary Mellish (10 March 1861 – 25 May 1922) was a New Zealand Anglican deaconess and nun.
Her father, Edward Mellish, was a banker and businessman, and she grew up in Mauritius, England, and Hong Kong.
Her mother, Ellen Borrowes, died while she was a baby, and her father remarried twice.
[1] Bishop Julius, who travelled to London with his wife and daughters in 1893 for health reasons, met Mellish and they returned to New Zealand on the Ruahine; they arrived in Auckland on 14 August 1893,[2] and Mellish arrived in Lyttelton (Christchurch's port) on 22 August.
[1] Her requiem was held at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Phillipstown, and she was buried at Linwood Cemetery.