Charles Watkins Merrifield FRS (20 October 1827 – 1 January 1884,

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) was a British mathematician. For the

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's Section of Mechanical Science, he was in 1875 the Section's Vice-President at the Brighton meeting and then in 1876 the Section's President at the Glasgow meeting. He served on the British Association's committee given the task of reporting on Charles Babbage’s analytical machine. For the

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, he served as Vice-President in 1876–1878, as President in 1878–1880, and as Treasurer in 1880–1882. Charles was the eldest son of the author and artist

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and brother of the barrister Frederick Merrifield. His nieces were the classical scholar Margaret Verrall (nee Merrifield) and suffrage campaigner Flora Merrifield.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Merrifield, Charles Watkins 19th-century English mathematicians 1827 births 1884 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society Presidents of the London Mathematical Society

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