Ninian Melville

Ninian Melville (29 December 1843 – 26 June 1897) was an Australian politician in the late nineteenth century.

Unfortunately, the business collapsed in 1866 under pressure from foreign imports and Melville began organising the unemployed to protest and demand protection for the industry.

[1] He moved to Melbourne the following year where he put his carpentry skills to use with an undertaker and also unsuccessfully contested a seat in the Victorian Parliament.

[1] He returned to Sydney in 1874 and, campaigning on a protectionist platform, he eventually won the seat of Northumberland in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 1880 by-election which he held until 1894.

[6] When he died in his Summer Hill home in 1897, he was survived by his wife Mary, two sons and two daughters.