Herman Merivale
Herman Merivale CB (8 November 1806 – 8 February 1874) was an English civil servant and historian. He was the elder brother of Charles Merivale, and father of the poet Herman Charles Merivale.
He was born at Dawlish, Devon to John Herman Merivale (1770–1844) and Louisa Heath Drury. He was educated at Harrow School. In 1823 he 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 fellow of Balliol College. He became a member of the Inner Temple and practised on the western circuit, being made in 1841 recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance.[1]
From 1837 to 1842 he was professor of political economy at the
Besides his Lectures on Colonization and Colonies (1841), he published Historical Studies (1865), and completed the Memoirs of
A tribute to his powers as an original thinker by his chief at the Colonial Office,
Family
On 29 October 1834 he married Caroline Penelope Robinson, daughter of William Villiers Robinson and Anne Brooksbank. Children
- Herman Charles Merivale (27 January 1839 – 17 August 1906) married Elizabeth Pitman
- Isabel Frances Sophia Merivale married William Peere Williams-Freeman
- Agnes Merivale (1847-1872) married John Townsend Trench on 10 August 1870.
References
- ^ a b c d Chisholm 1911.
- Merivale, Anna Wilhelmina, and Charles Merivale. Family Memorials. (p. 390) Exeter: T. Upward, printer, 1884. Google books Retrieved February 6, 2009
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 37. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 280–1.
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Merivale, Herman". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 169.
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