Mellis (other)
Mellis is a village in Suffolk, England. Mellis may also refer to: * Mellis (surname) *Sir Mellis Napier (1882–1976), Australian judge and academic administrator See also *Melis Melis is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Melis Abzalov (1938–2016), Uzbek actor, screenwriter, film director and producer * Melis Birkan (born 1981), Turkish actress * Melis Gerritsen (born 1939) ..., a surname and given name * Melli (other) * Mellish, a surname {{disambiguation, geo ...
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Mellis
Mellis is a small village in Suffolk, England. It has the largest area of unfenced common land in England. Oliver Cromwell exercised his troops in Mellis. It once had a railway station on the main line between London and Norwich, and a small branch line that ran to nearby Eye. Mellis Common is a 59 hectare nature reserve. In summer rare plants such as green-winged orchid, sulphur clover and adder's tongue fern flourish. The abundance of small mammals also makes the site a favourite hunting ground for barn owl and tawny owl. The 14th-century parish church of St Mary, restored in 1859 and 1900, is a Grade II* listed building. In 1968, Roger Deakin Roger Stuart Deakin (11 February 1943 – 19 August 2006) was an English writer, documentary-maker and environmentalist. He was a co-founder and trustee of Common Ground, the arts, culture and environment organisation. ''Waterlog'', the ... (1943 – 2006), writer and environmentalist, bought Walnut Tree Farm on the ...
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Mellis (surname)
Mellis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jacob Mellis (born 1991), English footballer *John Mellis, English author *Louis Mellis, Scottish actor and screenwriter *Margaret Mellis Margaret Nairne Mellis (22 January 1914 – 17 March 2009) was a Scotland, Scottish artist, one of the early members and last survivors of the group of modernist artists that gathered in St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives, in Cornwall, in the 1940s. She ...

Mellis Napier
Sir Thomas John Mellis Napier (24 October 1882 – 22 March 1976) was an Australian judge and academic administrator. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia between 28 February 1924 and 28 February 1967, Chief Justice of South Australia from 25 February 1942 until 28 February 1967 and Chancellor of the University of Adelaide. Early life He was born in Dunbar in East Lothian to Dr. Alexander Disney Leith Napier FRSE and his wife Jessie Mellis. The family moved to London in 1887, where he attended the City of London School, and emigrated to Australia in 1896, Dr. Alexander Napier having taken the post of senior resident physician at the Adelaide Hospital. He studied law at the University of Adelaide graduating LLB in 1902. In 1903 he became Managing Clerk for "Kingston & McLachlan" and became a partner with McLachlan in 1906. Legal career In 1912 (together with Thomas Poole) he resuscitated the Law Society of South Australia, and served as its Vice President in ...
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Melis
Melis is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Melis Abzalov (1938–2016), Uzbek actor, screenwriter, film director and producer *Melis Birkan (born 1981), Turkish actress * Melis Gerritsen (born 1939), Dutch track cyclist *Melis van de Groep (born 1958), Dutch politician * Melis Myrzakmatov, Kyrgyzstani politician *Melis Özçiğdem (born 1982), Turkish football player and referee *Melis Sezer (born 1993), Turkish tennis player *Melis Stoke (c.1235-c.1305 ), Dutch writer and clerk of Floris V, count of Holland *Melis Yılmaz (born 1997), Turkish volleyball player * Melis Jordan (born 1990), Turkish swimmer * Melis Myrzakmatov (born 1969), from 2009 until 2013 mayor of Osh, Kyrgyzstan's second largest city *Melis van de Groep (born 1958), Dutch politician of the Reformed Political League * Tuğba Melis Türk (born 1990), Turkish actress and model Surname * Alberto Melis (born 1993), Italian football midfielder *Anastasios Melis, America ...
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Melli (other)
Melli is a town in India. Melli may also refer to: People * Melli (name), list of people with the name Other * Andraca melli, moth of the family Endromidae *Bank Melli Iran, an Iranian bank * Chaqar Shir Melli, a village in Golestan Province, Iran * Melli Kandi, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran * Melli, Iran, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran *Team Melli, nickname for the Iranian national football team See also *Mellis (other) *Millet (Ottoman Empire) In the Ottoman Empire, a millet (; ar, مِلَّة) was an independent court of law pertaining to "personal law" under which a confessional community (a group abiding by the laws of Muslim Sharia, Christian Canon law, or Jewish Halakha) was al ...