Frank Mellor

Francis Hamilton Mellor CBE KC (13 May 1854 – 26 April 1925), known as Frank Mellor, was an English judge and a cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University, Kent and the Marylebone Cricket Club between 1874 and 1878.[1] He was born in London and died in Paris, France.

Career

Mellor was part of a distinguished legal family: his father was Sir John Mellor, a judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court and among his brothers John William Mellor was Judge Advocate General and a Member of Parliament who became Charman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker.[2] Another brother, Sir James Mellor, was Master of the Supreme Court, King's Remembrancer and King's Coroner, and the first registrar of the Court of Criminal Appeal; Frank Mellor was part author of a standard legal work on Crown Office Practice on which his brother James was cited by The Times as "probably the greatest living authority".[2] His nephew, John Paget Mellor, who was John William's son, was Treasury Solicitor and was awarded a baronetcy.[2]

Frank Mellor was educated at Cheltenham College and at Trinity College, Cambridge.[3] Mellor followed the family tradition and became a lawyer: he was called to the bar in 1880 and then practised on the Northern Circuit.[3] He served as a special pleader and was the Recorder of Preston from 1898 to 1911; he was called as a King's Counsel in 1903 and served as a county court judge in Manchester from 1911 to his death.[3]

He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1918 New Year Honours.[4]

He died suddenly after an operation in Paris.[2]

Cricket

He played as a right-handed middle-order batsman and an underarm slow bowler in the Cheltenham cricket team for three seasons and was tried as a lower-order batsman in a single match for the Cambridge University side in 1874, without success.[1] He returned to the Cambridge first team in 1877 having not progressed beyond the trial matches in the intervening years, and scored 46, his highest in first-class cricket, in his first game back.[5] Despite a modest batting record – and he did not bowl in first-class cricket – Mellor retained his place in the Cambridge eleven and played in the 1877 University Match, scoring 5 and 15 not out as Oxford won the game easily.[6] Later in the 1877 season and also in 1878 he played a couple of games for Kent and he also appeared in 1878 in a match for the Marylebone Cricket Club: in none of these games did he achieve anything of note.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Frank Mellor". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Obituaries: Judge F. H. Mellor". The Times (43947) (London). 28 April 1925. p. 16. (subscription required (help)).
  3. 1 2 3 J. Venn and J. A. Venn. "Alumni Cantabrigienses: Frank Mellor". www.archive.org/Cambridge University Press. p. 387. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30460. p. 370. 7 January 1918.
  5. ↑ "Scorecard: Cambridge University v England XI". www.cricketarchive.com. 3 May 1877. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Scorecard: Oxford University v Cambridge University". www.cricketarchive.com. 25 June 1877. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
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