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on 11 July 1836, he was son of John
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on 21 April 1858, when he was the gold medallist in Latin. At an early age he devoted himself to German philosophy, and became a private schoolmaster, first in the
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and York Place, London. He also lectured and took up journalism, in 1864 acting as a war correspondent in the
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Meiklejohn's series of school books, which was inaugurated in 1894, included a book on
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