Peter Kennedy Melville (born 11 February 1931) is a former

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

player in the

Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ...

(VFL). Ken Melville had his short career at

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

during the early period of Melbourne's golden era. He was a member of 1955 and 1956 premiership teams before retiring at the end of the 1956 season. Melville became a

Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ...

minister, serving in

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, London in the 1950s and then at

Benalla Benalla is a small city located on the Broken River gateway to the High Country north-eastern region of Victoria, Australia, about north east of the state capital Melbourne. At the the population was 10,822. It is the administrative centr ...

from 1961 to 1964.

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* 1931 births Living people Melbourne Football Club players Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy winners University Blacks Football Club players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Australian Presbyterian ministers Melbourne Football Club premiership players VFL/AFL premiership players 20th-century Australian Presbyterian ministers 21st-century English Presbyterian ministers {{AFL-bio-1930s-stub