MERIVALE

Charles (2 son of John Herman Merivale of Barton Place, Devon 1779–1844, comr. in bankruptcy). b. 1808; ed. at Harrow, Haileybury and St. John’s coll. Camb., rowed No. 4 in Cambridge boat against Oxford at the first university boat race 10 June 1829; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1840, D.D. 1871; scholar of his coll. 1830, fellow and tutor 1833, senior fellow 9 May 1848 to March 1849, hon. fellow June 1874; select preacher before Univ. of Camb. 1838–40; one of the preachers at White hall 1839–41; R. of Lawford, E ex 1848–70; Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge 1861, Boyle lecturer 1864 and 1865; chaplain to speaker of house of commons 1863–69; dean of Ely 11 Dec. 1869 to death, installed 29 Dec. 1869; celebrated the 1200th anniversary of the foundation of the monastery of Ely by St. Etheldreda, Oct. 1873; author of Fall of the Roman republic 1853; History of the Romans under the Empire 8 vols. 1859–62, new ed. 8 vols. 1865; Keatsii Hyper i on is libri 1, 2, Latine red did it 1862; Homer’s Iliad in English rhymed verse 2 vols. 1869; Four lectures on epochs of early church history 1879. d. Ely 27 Dec. 1893. bur. Ely 2 Jany. 1894. I.L.N. 6 Jany. 1894 p. 5, portrait ; Edinburgh Review , Oct. 1884 pp. 545–65.