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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote 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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