MELLISH, GEORGE LILLY (1835-81) was born in England and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, and Pembroke College. He rowed in the Oxford eight in 1854. When the Crimean War broke out he received a commission in the 44th Regiment, with which he served before Sebastopol. After the war he abandoned his studies and came to South Australia (1857), and in the following year to Canterbury, where he spent a few years sheep farming in the back country. On the outbreak of the Waikato war he received a captain's commission in the 4th Waikato Regiment. He was in charge of the camp at Onehunga for a while, and later in command of Galloway's redoubt. In 1865 Mellish was appointed resident magistrate at Picton; in 1868 at Kaiapoi, and in 1874 at Christchurch. He died on 29 Dec 1881.

Press, 30 Dec 1881.

Reference: Volume 2, page 41

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