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Charles Merivale
The Very Reverend Charles Merivale (8 March 1808 – 27 December 1893) was an English historian and churchman, for many years dean of Ely Cathedral. He was one of the main instigators of the inaugural Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race which took place at Henley in 1829.
Life.
Life Early life.
Merivale was the second son of John Herman Merivale (1770–1844) and Louisa Heath Drury, daughter of Joseph Drury, headmaster of Harrow. He was educated at Harrow School under George Butler from 1818
The Correspondence of William Blackwood and Henry Merivale Trollope". The Princeton University Library Chronicle 47.2 (1986): 189-223.
- "Trollope and Carlyle". Nineteenth-Century Fiction 27.2 (Sep., 1972): 197-205.
External links.
- Author page at David R. Godine, Publisher
- Recording of interview with N. John Hall analyzing C.P Snow's "Trollope: His Life and Art" on "Reader's Almanac", WNYC, Sep 6, 1976
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