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MR JOHN XAYIER MERIUMAN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, August 2. The death is announced of the Right TTon. John Xavier Mcrriman, a former Prime Minister of the Union.—Renter. [Mr Merriman took a prominent part in South African politics for upwards of fifty years. Born in Somersetshire in "1.841, he was educated at Padley War, Oxford, and went out to South Africa in 18(51. From 1875 tol9oo lie was a member of several Ministries, and in 1008 he became Prime Minister and Treasurer, holding office till 1910. Since that year ho had been a member of the Legislative Assembly. Ho was called to the Privy Council in 1909.]
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Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 5
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109OBITUARY Evening Star, Issue 19319, 4 August 1926, Page 5
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