Herman Merivale CB (8 November 1806 – 8 February 1874) was an English civil servant and historian.
He was born at Dawlish, Devon to John Herman Merivale (1770–1844) and Louisa Heath Drury.
He became a member of the Inner Temple and practised on the western circuit, being made in 1841 recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance.
In this capacity he delivered a course of lectures on the British Colonies in which he dealt with questions of emigration, employment of labour and the allotment of public lands.
[1] A tribute to his powers as an original thinker by his chief at the Colonial Office, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, is printed with a notice of his career which his brother contributed to the Transactions (1884) of the Devonshire Association.