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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Merivale | | First Name(s) | Herman | | Birth Year | 1806 | | Death Year | 1874 | | Entry | Born Nov. 8, 1806 : son of John Herman Merivale : educated at Harrow, and Trinity College, Oxford (Scholar) : Ireland Scholar, 1825 : Fellow of Balliol College, 1828 : called to the bar at the Inner Temple, 1832 : Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, 1837, and lectured on "" Colonization and Colonies"" : Assistant Under Secretary for the Colonies, 1847 : permanent Under Secretary, 1848 : transferred in 1859 to the permanent Under-Secretaryship for India : C.B. : D.C.L. Oxford, 1870 : died Feb. 8, 1874 :he devoted himself to literature as opportunities offered : completed Parkes' Life of Sir Philip Francis : wrote the second volume, Sir Herbert Edwardes writing the first, of the Life of Sir Henry Lawrence :""Historical Studies"" : for the Edinburgh Review for forty years : also in the Quarterly Review and Pall Mall Gazette. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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