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MERIVALE, CHARLES (1808-1893)

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MERIVALE, See also:CHARLES (1808-1893) , See also:English historian and See also:dean of See also:Ely, the second son of See also:John Herman Merivale and Louisa See also:Heath See also:Drury, daughter of Dr Drury, See also:head See also:master of See also:Harrow, was See also:born on the 8th of See also:March 18o8. His See also:father (1799-1844) was an English See also:barrister, and, from 1831, a See also:commissioner in See also:bankruptcy; he collaborated with See also:Robert Bland (1779-1825) in his Collections from the See also:Greek See also:Anthology, and published some excellent See also:translations from See also:Italian and See also:German. Charles Merivale was at Harrow School (1818 to 1824) under Dr See also:Butler. His See also:chief See also:friends were Charles See also:Wordsworth, after-wards See also:bishop of St See also:Andrews, and See also:Richard Chenevix See also:Trench, afterwards See also:archbishop of See also:Dublin. In 1824 he was offered a writership in the See also:Indian See also:civil service, and went for a See also:short See also:time to Haileybury See also:College, where he was distinguished for proficiency in See also:Oriental See also:languages. But he eventually decided against an Indian career, and went up to St John's College, See also:Cambridge, in 1826. Among other distinctions he came out as See also:fourth classic in 183o, and in 1833 was elected See also:fellow of St John's. He was a member of the Apostles' See also:Club, his fellow-members including See also:Tennyson, A. H. See also:Hallam, Monckton Milnes, W. H. See also:Thompson, Trench and See also:James See also:Spedding.

He was fond of athletic exercises, had played for Harrow against See also:

Eton in 1824. and in 1829 rowed in the first inter-university See also:boat-See also:race, when See also:Oxford won. Having been ordained in 1833, he undertook college and university See also:work successfully, and in 1839 was appointed select preacher at See also:Whitehall. In 1848 he took the college living of Lawford, near Manningtree, in See also:Essex; he married, in 185o, See also:Judith See also:Mary See also:Sophia, youngest daughter of See also:George See also:Frere. In 1863 he was appointed See also:chaplain to the See also:Speaker of the See also:House of See also:Commons, declined the professorship of See also:modern See also:history at Cambridge in 1869, but in the same See also:year accepted from Mr See also:Gladstone the deanery of Ely, and until his See also:death on the 27th of See also:December 1893 devoted himself to the best interests of the See also:cathedral. He received many honorary academical distinctions. His See also:principal work was A History of the See also:Romans under the See also:Empire, in seven volumes, which came out between 1850 and 1862; but he wrote several smaller See also:historical See also:works, and published sermons, lectures and Latin verses. Merivale as a historiaft cannot be compared with See also:Gibbon for virility, but he takes an eminently See also:common-sense and appreciative view. The chief defect of his work, inevitable at the time it was composed, is that, See also:drawing the materials from contemporary See also:memoirs rather than from See also:inscriptions, he relies on See also:literary See also:gossip rather than on See also:numismatics and See also:epigraphy. The dean was an elegant See also:scholar, and his rendering of the See also:Hyperion of See also:Keats into Latin See also:verse (1862) has received high praise. See Autobiography of Dean Merivale, with selections from his See also:correspondence, edited by his daughter, Judith A. Merivale (1899) ; and See also:Family Memorials, by See also:Anna W. Merivale (1884).

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