In addition, the city is home to a large number of independent, fee-paying schools including Edinburgh Academy, Fettes College, George Heriot's School, George Watson's College, Merchiston Castle School, Stewart's Melville College and The Mary Erskine School.

His maternal grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, a hero of the Battle of Saratoga ; in his gold-laced uniform, the general sat for a portrait painted by Gilbert Stuart, which is described in Melville's 1852 novel, Pierre, for Melville wrote out of his familial as well as his nautical background.

From 1838 to 1847, he resided at what is now known as the Herman Melville House in Lansingburgh, New York.

A common story says that his New York Times obituary called him " Henry Melville ", implying that he was unknown and unappreciated at his time of death, but the story is not true.

Melville is less well known as a poet and did not publish poetry until later in life.

According to Melville scholar Elizabeth Renker " a sea change in the reception of the poems is incipient.

This is the street where Melville lived from 1863 to 1891 and where, among other works, he wrote Billy Budd.

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

The current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of National Geographic is Gilbert Melville Grosvenor, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 for the Society's leadership for Geography education.

Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

In a scene where the Dolly is boarded by young women from Nukuheva, Melville originally wrote:

Thus, Boas ' student Melville Herskovits summed up the principle of cultural relativism thus: " Judgements are based on experience, and experience is interpreted by each individual in terms of his own enculturation.

South of the western end of the island is the Fury and Hecla Strait which separates the island from the Melville Peninsula on the mainland.

Along with her equally larcenous father, " Colonel " Harrington ( Charles Coburn ) and his partner Gerald ( Melville Cooper ), she is out to fleece rich, naive Charles Pike ( Henry Fonda ), the heir to the Pike Ale fortune (" The Ale That Won for Yale ").

The most famous and critically acclaimed of all the résistancialisme movies is Army of Shadows ( L ' Armee des ombres ), which was made by the French film-maker Jean-Pierre Melville in 1969.

Tolland County is briefly referenced in the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville as the place that the ill-fated ship mate, Pip, comes from.

Terry Stephen Puhl ( born July 8, 1956 in Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada ) is a former professional baseball outfielder.

The current Mayor of Hawkins County is Melville Bailey ( R-Rogersville ).

Its invention is variously ascribed to Lieutenant General Robert Melville in 1759, or to Charles Gascoigne, manager of the Carron Company from 1769 to 1779.

Cape Melville is a national park in Queensland, Australia, located 1711 km northwest of Brisbane.

It is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park east of Cape Melville in Princess Charlotte Bay.

The town is named in honor of Melville E. Ingalls.

Melville is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Melville is located at ( 30. 693351 ,-91. 745506 ).

Melville Township is a township in Renville County, Minnesota, United States.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

We must also remember those who reacted against the dream as a kind of myth -- among them Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James the elder, all of them out of a Christian background.

Melville also wrote Billy Budd, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn, Typee, Omoo, Pierre, The Confidence-Man and many short stories, including " Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street " and " Benito Cereno ," and works of various genres.

The short stories " Melville on Iapetus " ( 1983 ), " Promises to Keep " ( 1984 ), " Oculus " ( 2002 ), " The Big Downtown " ( 2005 ), " Kaminsky at War " ( 2006 ), and " Maiden Voyage " ( 2012 ) are also set in the Academy universe.

She also said that the popular domestic novels of the 19th century, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, were remarkable for their " intellectual complexity, ambition, and resourcefulness "; and that Uncle Tom's Cabin offers a " critique of American society far more devastating than any delivered by better-known critics such as Hawthorne and Melville.

The early years of the nineteenth century saw Lawrence's portrait practice continue to flourish: amongst his sitters were major political figures such as Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville and William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, whose wife Lady Caroline Lamb was also painted by Lawrence.

Near contemporaries Melville Davisson Post and Anna Katherine Green wrote the earliest known stories that might be described as historical whodunnits, although both also wrote mysteries with contemporary settings as well.

The district also contained the mainland Melville Peninsula and Boothia Peninsula.

It is also the home of Canon U. S. A., Inc., though Canon U. S. A. is due to move its corporate headquarters to Melville, NY ( in neighboring Suffolk County ).

Melville is also the host of operations for many Fortune 500 companies.

Melville was also the global headquarters of Gentiva Health Services from its 1999 founding until its 2006 relocation to Atlanta.

It should also be noted that the author Herman Melville was being published around this time.

He has also served as a vice-principal at Ward Melville High School, in Three Village School District.

Melville also included a vivid depiction of flogging, and the circumstances surrounding it, in his more famous work, Moby-Dick.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

He also read books by London, Lugones, Stevenson, Melville and Conrad.

Melville Island in the Northern Territory of Australia was also named for him, by explorer Phillip Parker King.

He also gives his name to Melville Street in the New Town area of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a large statue of him stands in the central square of this street.

The locality of Melville in Perth, Western Australia is also named after him.

The principal are the statues of George Washington in the State-house at Boston, Massachusetts ; of George III in The Guildhall, London ; of George IV at Brighton ; of William Pitt the Younger in Hanover Square, London ; of James Watt in Westminster Abbey and in Glasgow ( also a bust, plus one of William Murdoch, at St. Mary's Church, Handsworth ); of William Roscoe and George Canning in Liverpool ; of John Dalton in Manchester Town Hall ; of Lord President Blair and Lord Melville in Edinburgh, etc.

There also exist featural phonetic transcription systems, such as Alexander Melville Bell's Visible Speech and its derivatives.

After four voyages to India he was nominated to the command of the Melville Castle in the summer of 1793 ; but having begun a careful study of the Bible during his voyages, and also come under the evangelical influence of David Bogue of Gosport, one of the founders of the London Missionary Society, he abruptly decided to leave the navy for a religious life, and returned to Scotland.

Gansevoort was also the maternal grandfather of Moby-Dick author Herman Melville.