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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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HERMAN

MERIVALE (1806-1874)  ,
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English
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civil servant and author, elder
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brother of the preceding, was born at
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Dawlish, Devonshire, on the 8th of November 1806 . He was educated at
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Harrow School, and in 1823 entered Oriel College, Oxford . In 1825 he became a scholar of Trinity College and also won the Ireland scholarship, and three years later he was elected
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fellow of Balliol College . He became a member of the Inner Temple and practised on the western circuit, being made in 1841 recorder of
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Falmouth,
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Helston and
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Penzance . From 1837 to 1842 he was professor of
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political
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economy at Oxford . In this capacity he delivered a course of lectures on the
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British Colonies in which he dealt with questions of emigration, employment of labour and the allotment of public lands . The reputation he secured by these lectures had much to do with his appointment in 1847 as assistant under-secretary for the colonies, and in the next
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year he became permanent under-secretary . In 1859 he was transferred to the permanent under-secretaryship for India, receiving the distinction of C.B . In 187o Merivale was made D.C.L. of Oxford . He died on the 8th of
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February 1874 . Besides his Lectures on Colonization and Colonies (1841),he published
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Historical Studies (1868), and completed the
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Memoirs of
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Sir Philip Francis (1867); he wrote the second
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volume of the
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Life of Sir Henry Lawrence (1872) in continuation of Sir Herbert Edwardes's
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work . A tribute to his powers as an
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original thinker by his chief at the Colonial Office, Sir
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, is printed with a
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notice of his career which his brother contributed to the Transactions (1884) of the Devonshire Association .

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