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HERMAN See also:MERIVALE (1806-1874)
, See also:English See also:civil servant and author, See also:elder See also:brother of the preceding, was See also:born at See also:Dawlish, See also:Devonshire, on the 8th of See also:November 1806
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He was educated at See also:Harrow School, and in 1823 entered See also:Oriel See also:College, See also:Oxford
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In 1825 he became a See also:scholar of Trinity College and also won the See also:Ireland scholarship, and three years later he was elected See also:fellow of Balliol College
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He became a member of the Inner See also:Temple and practised on the western See also:circuit, being made in 1841 See also:recorder of See also:Falmouth, See also:Helston and See also:Penzance
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From 1837 to 1842 he was See also:professor of See also:political See also:economy at Oxford
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In this capacity he delivered a course of lectures on the See also:British Colonies in which he dealt with questions of See also:emigration, employment of labour and the See also:allotment of public lands
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The reputation he secured by these lectures had much to do with his See also:appointment in 1847 as assistant under-secretary for the colonies, and in the next See also:year he became permanent under-secretary
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In 1859 he was transferred to the permanent under-secretaryship for See also:India, receiving the distinction of C.B
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In 187o See also:Merivale was made D.C.L. of Oxford
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He died on the 8th of See also:February 1874
.
Besides his Lectures on Colonization and Colonies (1841),he published See also:Historical Studies (1868), and completed the See also:Memoirs of See also:Sir See also:
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