Background
Merriman was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, and educated at Winchester College.
Merriman was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, and educated at Winchester College.
Merriman was born in Knutsford, Cheshire, and educated at. He did not go to university, but became an articled clerk with a firms of solicitors in Manchester, and later studied for the Barometer He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1904, and became a King"s Counsel (KC) in 1919.
During World War I, he served with the Manchester Regiment and was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1918.
He left Parliament in 1933, when he was appointed as President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court. He was knighted in 1928 and elevated to the peerage in 1941 as Baron Merriman, of Knutsford in the County Palatine of Chester. Lord Merriman married three times.
They had two daughters.
The peerage became extinct on Lord Merriman"s death in London in 1962, aged 81. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery, London, on the west side of the central enclosed roundel.
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Merriman was elected at the 1924 general election as Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Manchester Rusholme, and served as Solicitor General for England and Wales under Stanley Baldwin from 1928 to 1929 and under Ramsay MacDonald from 1932 to 1933.