Melville Portal JP, DL (31 July 1819 – 24 January 1904)[1] was a British Conservative Party politician from Hampshire.
[3] He was re-elected unopposed[4] in 1852[5] at a sparsely attended hustings in Winchester,[6] and retired from the House of Commons at the 1857 general election.
[8] He was nominated as High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1861[9][10] and in 1862,[11] and was appointed to the office in 1863,[12] when his address was given as Laverstoke House, Mitcheldever Station.
[citation needed] Sir Gerald was a rapidly promoted young diplomat, whose career in Africa led to him contracting malaria, and he died of typhoid in London on 25 January 1894.
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