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Modern Athenians_ (1882) 173–4, _portrait_. MERCER-HENDERSON, DOUGLAS. Ensign 3 foot guards 24 March 1803, lieut.-col. 10 Jany. 1837 to 11 Aug. 1837 when placed on h.p.; colonel 68 foot 31 Jany. 1850 to death; C.B. 22 June 1815; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851; took surname of Henderson in addition to and after that of Mercer 14 Jany. 1853. _d._ Naples 21 March 1854. MERCIER, LEWIS PAGE (only son of Francis Michael Jacob Mercier of 5 Upper Hamilton terrace, London). _b._ 1820; ed. at Trin. coll. and Univ. coll. Oxf., scholar 1839–42, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1855; second master of Glasgow college sch. 1842; assist. minister of St. Andrew’s episcopal chapel, Glasgow, and chaplain to the garrison 1843–5; assist. classical master Tonbridge sch. 1845–6; second master Edgbaston sch. 1846–49, head master 1849–57; chaplain of Foundling hospital, London 1857–73; translated J. Verne’s From the earth to the moon 1873 and C. Koldewey’s The German arctic expedition 1874; author of A manual of Greek prosody 1843; Selections from Æsop, Xenophon and Anacreon 1851; The principles of christian charity 1855; Considerations respecting a future state 1858; The eucharistic feast 1868; Outlines of the life of the lord Jesus Christ 2 vols. 1871–2. _d._ 2 Nov. 1875. MEREDITH, CHARLES (son of George Meredith). _b._ Poyston lodge, Pembroke 29 May 1811; arrived at Hobart Town 18 March 1821; a squatter in New South Wales; removed to Van Diemen’s Land 1840; member of the house of assembly 1841–79, colonial treasurer 26 Feb. to 25 April 1857, 20 Jany. 1863 to 24 Nov. 1866 and 1876 to 1877; minister of lands and works 4 Nov. 1872 to 4 Aug. 1873. _d._ Launceston, Tasmania 2 March 1880, memorial public fountain placed in Queen’s Domain, Hobart 1885. MEREDITH, SIR WILLIAM COLLIS (son of rev. Thomas Meredith, R. of Andrea, co. Tyrone). _b._ Ardtrea 23 May 1812; called to bar at Montreal 1836; Q.C. 1844; judge of superior court for province of Quebec 1849; judge of court of queen’s bench for same province 1859–66; chief justice of the superior court 1866–84; knighted by patent 21 June 1886; D.C.L. Lennoxville univ. 1854, LL.D. Laval univ. 1880. _d._ 19 Ursule st. Quebec 28 Feb. 1894. MEREDYTH, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir John Meredyth, 1 Baronet). _b._ 1775; called to Irish bar 1797; succeeded his brother as baronet 1814; a paid ecclesiastical comr. for Ireland; Q.C. 18 Feb. 1822; bencher of King’s inns 1832. _d._ 25 Rutland square, Dublin 2 May 1859. MEREI, AUGUST SCHOEPF. _b._ Hungary; M.D. Vienna and Pavia 1832; extra L.R.C.P. London 1856; founder and director of the Children’s hospital at Pesth; professor of history of medicine in univ. of Pesth; editor of the only Hungarian medical journal; joined revolutionary party in the civil war; a refugee in England; practised at Manchester 1856 to death, established a Children’s hospital there; author of On spasms and convulsions of children. Edinb. 1850; On the disorders of infantile development and rickets 1855. _d._ 114 Oxford street, Manchester, March 1858. MEREWETHER, CHARLES GEORGE (son of Francis Merewether, R. of Cole Orton, Leics. _d._ 1864). _b._ 20 Aug. 1823; ed. at Wad. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 28 Jany. 1848; Q.C. 14 Feb. 1877; recorder of Leicester 31 Aug. 1868 to death; contested Northampton 13 Nov. 1868, 7 Feb. 1874 and April 1880; M.P. Northampton 7 Oct. 1874 to April 1880; a comr. to inquire into corrupt practices at elections 1880. _d._ Inns of court hotel, Holborn, London 26 June 1884. NOTE.--He wrote for Anthony Trollope the legal opinion as to heirlooms in ‘The Eustace diamonds’ 3 vols. 1872, which has become the ruling authority on the subject. MEREWETHER, FRANCIS (son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.) _b._ 1784; ed. at Reading gr. sch., Eton and Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1805; incorp. B.A. St. John’s coll. Camb. 1809, M.A. 1809; R. of Cole Orton, Leics. 26 Oct. 1815 to death; V. of Whitwick, Leics. 17 June 1819 to death; he wrote and printed many letters to politicians and theologians 1813–57; author of The case between the church and the dissenters considered 1827; An appeal in behalf of the church of England. Ashby de la Zouch 1832; Popery a new religion compared with that of Christ and his apostles 1835, 3 ed. 1836; A pastoral address to the inhabitants of Whitwick on the opening of a monastery within that parish 1845; A letter on church rates. Leicester 1855. _d._ Cole Orton rectory 21 July 1864. MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of Henry Merewether of Calne, Wilts.) _b._ 1780; ed. at Reading school; barrister I.T. 5 May 1809; serjeant-at-law 25 June 1827; received patent of precedence 16 July 1832; recorder of Yarmouth to 1835; recorder of Reading to Aug. 1864; solicitor general to queen Adelaide 24 May 1832 and attorney general 5 April 1845 to his death; town-clerk of London 23 June 1842 to 10 Feb. 1859, when he resigned on pension of £1000 per annum; author of A new system of police 1816; A sketch of the history of boroughs 1822; Report of the case of the borough of West Looe 1823; author with A. J. Stephens of The history of the boroughs and municipal corporations of the United Kingdom 3 vols. 1835. _d._ Castlefield near Calne, Wilts. 22 July 1864. _Law Times_, _xxxix_ 442 (1864). MEREWETHER, HENRY ALWORTH (eld. son of the preceding). _b._ 23 April 1813; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb.; barrister I.T. 9 June 1837, bencher 30 April 1853 to death, reader 1867, treasurer 1868; recorder of Devizes 2 Feb. 1844 to death; Q.C. 5 April 1853; chairman of Wilts. quarter sessions to Jany. 1875, leader of the parliamentary bar, retired 18 July 1871; author of By sea and by land, being a trip through Egypt, India, Ceylon, New Zealand and America 1874. _d._ Bowden hill near Chippenham, Wilts. 29 Aug. 1877. _Law Times_, _lxiii_ 353 (1877). MEREWETHER, SIR WILLIAM LOCKYER (son of H. A. Merewether 1780–1864). _b._ 51 Chancery lane, London 6 Feb 1825; ed. at Westminster 1834–40; ensign 21 Bombay N.I. 26 Sep. 1841; lieut 3 Bombay European regiment 1853, captain 1856–61; lieut.-col. Bombay staff corps 18 March 1867 to death; served on the frontier of Upper Sinde 1847–61, present at siege of Multán, battle of Gujrát and occupation of Pesháwar 1848–9; military secretary to government of Bombay 1861; political resident at Aden 1865; commanded the pioneer force despatched from Bombay against King Theodore of Abyssinia, Sep. 1867; chief comr. in Sind 12 June 1868 to 1876; a member of council of India 1876 to death; C.B. 18 May 1860; K.C.S.I. 24 Aug. 1868; author of Report relating to the enlargement of the Bigaree canal in Upper Sind