Major George John Whyte-Melville was born in 1821,[2] at Mount Melville near St Andrews. He was a son of Major John Whyte-Melville and Lady Catherine Anne Sarah Osborne and a grandson on his mother's side of the 5th Duke of Leeds. His father was a well-known sportsman and Captain of St Andrews Golf Club. George was educated at Eton,[2] entered the army in 1839,[2] became captain in the Coldstream Guards in 1846 and retired in 1849.[2] He married The Hon Charlotte Hanbury-Bateman in 1847,[2] and they had one daughter, Florence Elizabeth, who went on to marry Clotworthy John Skeffington, 11th Viscount Massereene and 4th Viscount Ferrard.
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