Background
At his father"s home he met many distinguished men, including Lord Robert Cecil (afterwards Prime Minister Lord Salisbury), who became a lifelong friend.
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Herman Merivale
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A barrister, writer, and civil servant who was Permanent Under-Secretary of the India Office, he was educated at Harrow School and Balliol College, Oxford, where Algernon Charles Swinburne and Charles Bowen were his contemporaries. He graduated Bachelor in 1861.
Career
He also used the punning pseudonym Felix Dale. Following his father"s death in 1874 he gave up the law in favour of literature and the theatre. Merivale wrote many farces and burlesques.
Foreign John Hollingshead he produced a burlesque, The Lady of Lyons Married and Settled, performed at the Gaiety Theatre (5 October 1878), and Called There and Back (15 October 1884).
The Butler (1886) and were both written for the actor J. L. Toole. Suffering from depression for many years, following a breakdown in 1879 he went to Australia on the advice of his physician, and then returned with his health recovered, only to discover that the power of attorney he had left with a defaulting solicitor had cost him his entire fortune.
A few years before his death Merivale became a Roman Catholic. He died suddenly of heart failure on 14 January 1906 at 69 Woodstock Road, Acton, Middlesex, and was buried in his father"s grave in Brompton Cemetery.
He had no children and his widow was granted a civil-list pension of £50 in 1906.
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Roman Catholic