Emily Hester Melvill

Emily Hester Brodrick (née Melvill; 15 April 1846 – 1906) was an English writer. She published novels as Mrs Alan Brodrick. Life Brodrick was born at Fort William, Calcutta on 15 April 1846, or 25 April, the eldest daughter of Philip Melvill (1817–1854), eldest son of Sir James Cosmo Melvill, and his wife Emily Jane Hogg, daughter of Charles Hogg. The Melvill family was highly influential in the East India Company. She was baptised on 8 June that year. After her marriage, she was a vicar's wife in Godalming from 1875, and Alverstoke from 1885 to 1901. In Alverstoke she was involved in setting up allotments on the glebe land. Her husband Alan Brodrick became Master of the Hospital of St Cross, in Winchester, where they moved in 1901. Death and legacy