William Melville [SEP] cause of death
of a German spy ring.
Death.
William Melville died of kidney failure in February 1918.
See also.
- Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming
- Sidney Reilly
- Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart
- Vernon Kell
- Sir James Melville KC son, eminent barrister, MP for Gateshead and Solicitor General in Ramsay MacDonald government – died in office aged 46. Had successfully defended anarchists; also unsuccessfully acted in appeal against the obscenity decision re: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness. Married to Sara
William Purefoy
William Purefoy (c. 1580 – 8 Sep 1659) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons of England variously between 1628 and 1659. He supported the Parliamentary cause in the English Civil War and was one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.
Born into a long-established Warwickshire family, Purefoy was educated at Cambridge University and Gray's Inn. He travelled extensively on the continent of Europe, returning with extreme Calvinist views.
He was elected Member of Parliament for Coventry