George Melly (MP)

George Melly (20 August 1830 – 27 February 1894)[1] was an English merchant and shipowner and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1875.

He was a member of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, and a director of the Union Marine Insurance Co.

[2] Melly stood unsuccessfully for Parliament at a by-election in April 1862 in Preston,[3] and in Stoke-upon-Trent at the 1865 general election.

[5] He was re-elected at the general election in November 1868,[6] and in 1874,[7] and held the seat until his resignation on 5 February 1875 by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.

Their children included the educationalist Florence Elizabeth Melly who was born in 1856.