George Mellish

Sir George Mellish, PC (19 December 1814 – 15 June 1877) was an English barrister, judge of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Edward Mellish, DD, Rector of the parish, who afterwards became Dean of Hereford, by his marriage to Elizabeth Jane Leigh, the daughter of the Rev.

[2] Mellish attended Eton, where he fagged for William Gladstone,[3] participated in the Debating Society and was a "wet bob", a sculler on the river.

He was one of the judges in the 1877 case Parker v South Eastern Rly Co. Mellish was a lifelong sufferer from serious gout.

[10][11] He had outlived his elder brother, William Leigh Mellish (1813–1864), who became a British Army officer and retired as Lieutenant Colonel of the Sherwood Foresters, having married Margaret Ann, a daughter of Sir Samuel Cunard, Bart.

George Mellish, caricature by " Spy " in Vanity Fair , 30 December 1876