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And where was his plantation?
General Robert Melvill (or Melville, 1723–1809) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of the "ceded islands," including acting governor of Grenada (1764, 1770–1771).
He was a significant slave plantation owner, holding estates in Tobago (Carnbee), Dominica (Melville Hall) and Grenada. Robert Melville's Melville Hall estate in Dominica was valued at £33,190 16s 0d (currency) with 1027 acres in 1770; Carnbee, in Tobago, 200 acres, was valued at £4200.
In Grenada, he owned property (land, houses and enslaved people) valued at £7777 4s 0d current money.
Melville Street is named after him.