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HERMAN MERIVALE (1806-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 169 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . He was educated at See also:Harrow School, and in 1823 entered See also:Oriel See also:College, See also:Oxford . 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 . 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 . From 1837 to 1842 he was See also:professor of See also:political See also:economy at Oxford . 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 . 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 . In 1859 he was transferred to the permanent under-secretaryship for See also:India, receiving the distinction of C.B . In 187o See also:Merivale was made D.C.L. of Oxford . 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:Philip See also:Francis (1867); he wrote the second See also:volume of the See also:Life of Sir See also:Henry See also:Lawrence (1872) in continuation of Sir See also:Herbert See also:Edwardes's See also:work . A See also:tribute to his See also:powers as an See also:original thinker by his See also:chief at the Colonial See also:Office, Sir See also:Edward Bulwer-See also:Lytton, is printed with a See also:notice of his career which his brother contributed to the Transactions (1884) of the Devonshire Association .

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