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Herman Merivale

1806–74

Civil servant and economist. Professor of political economy, Oxford University, 1837–42. Assistant under-secretary of state for the colonies, 1847; permanent under-secretary, 1848. Permanent under-secretary, India Office, 1860.

Source

ODNB.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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