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The late Mr. Herman Merivale, C.B., 1874. Creator: Unknown.

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The late Mr. Herman Merivale, C.B., 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. Dickinson, of New Bond-street. 'The death of this gentleman was mentioned in our obituary last week. He was a son of Mr. Commissioner Merivale, formerly Judge of the Exeter Court of Bankruptcy. He was educated at Harrow, and at Oriel College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained high University honours. He practised at the Bar some years on the Western Circuit, and was the first occupant of Mr. Henry Drummond's chair of political economy at Oxford. His lectures in this professorship were afterwards developed in a work on colonisation, which led to his appointment by Lord Grey as Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in 1847. In 1858, at the request of Sir C. Wood, he was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary at the India Office, where his remaining official years were passed. His contributions to historical and political literature are of considerable value. The biography of Sir Henry Lawrence, begun by Sir Herbert Edwardes, was completed by Mr. Herman Merivale. He also wrote the "Life of Sir Philip Francis." Mr. Merivale was sixty-eight years of age'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

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HRM25A32_304

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11,4Mo (708,6Ko) / 16,1cm x 17,7cm / 1898 x 2094 (300dpi)

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