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{{Infobox military person
| name = Sir William Merewether
| image = File:Colonel Sir W. L. Merewether, C.B., K.S.I.png
| caption =
| nickname =
| birth_date = 6 February 1825
| birth_place = London, England
| death_date = 4 October 1880
| death_place = [[Bayswater, London]], England
| unit =
| branch = {{army|British India|23px}}
| allegiance = {{flagcountry|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland}}
| serviceyears =
| rank = [[Major-General]]
| commands =
| battles = [[1868 Expedition to Abyssinia|Abyssinia Expedition]]
| awards = [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]]<br/>[[Companion of the Order of the Bath]]
}}
[[Major General]] '''Sir William Lockyer Merewether''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI|CB}} (6 February 1825 – 4 October 1880) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer who served in a number of places including [[British India|India]] and [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Obituary Notices for the Year 1880 |date=1882 |publisher=London Index Society |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lUwyAQAAMAAJ&q=Sir+William+Lockyer+Merewether&pg=PA62 |access-date=4 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Merewether was born in London to Sergeant Henry Alworth Merewether, educated at Westminster School before joining the Bombay Army in 1841. He served in the 21st Native Infantry regiment in Sind in 1843. He became second in command of the Sind horse from 1848 under Sir [[George Malcolm (Indian Army officer)|George Malcolm]]. He was made [[Order of the Bath|CB]] in 1860 and became a secretary to government at Bombay in 1861, served as a political agent and was [[British Resident at Aden]] from 1863 to 1867.<ref>[http://rulers.org/rulyz.html Countries YZ]</ref><ref name=":0">{{cite book|author=Goldsmid, Frederic John|title=Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 37|publisher=Elder Smith and Co.|year=1894|editor=Lee, Sidney|place=London|pages=276–277|chapter=Merewether, William Lockyer}}</ref>

=== Abyssinia 1867–1868 ===
Merewether played a role as a member of the advance party for the [[1868 Expedition to Abyssinia|Abyssinia Expedition]] of 1867–68. While a colonel, he landed at [[Mulkutto]] on the [[Gulf of Zula]] 21 October 1867, returning to the settlement at the end of the month, after having first explored along the base of the [[Ethiopian highlands]] south until he encountered the [[Ragolay River]], which empties into the [[Afar Depression]], then identified [[Tekonda Pass]] as the best entrance to the Ethiopian highlands. The next month, another party under his leadership pushed further inland to the Senafe Pass, which led from the dry bed of the [[Kumayli River]] to [[Senafe]].<ref>[[Clements Markham|C. R. Markham]], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1798567 "Geographical Results of the Abyssinian Expedition", ''Journal of the Royal Geographical Society''], 38 (1868), pp. 14, 16, 34</ref> After the expedition was successfully concluded, he was promoted to Brigadier General. He was knighted in 1868 for his work in negotiating with King Theodore of Abyssinia and for assisting [[Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala|Lord Napier]] at Bombay in 1867.<ref name=":0" />

===Sindh (Pakistan)===
He was the [[List of Governors of Sindh|Commissioner in Sind]] from 1867 to 1877.<ref>Behram Sohrab H.J. Rustomji, ''Karachi 1839-1947 A Short History of the Foundation and Growth of Karachi'', in Karachi During the British Era Two Histories of a Modern City, Oxford University Press, Karachi, 2007. p. 104</ref> He was one of the founding members of [[Sindh Club|Sind Club]] as well as its first president. From 1876 he served on the council of India.<ref name=":0" />

== Personal life ==
Merewether was married to Harriet, daughter of J. Dale of Warwickshire from 1854. They had three sons.

==Memorials==
[[Merewether Clock Tower]] is located in [[Karachi]].<ref name="J.W. Smyth, 1919. Pg 62">J.W. Smyth, ''Gazetteer of the Province of Sind B Vol 1 Karachi District'', Government Central Press, Bombay 1919. Reprinted by Pakistan Herald Publications Ltd, Karachi p. 62</ref> There is also a ship pier named after him in [[Karachi Harbour]].<ref>J.W. Smyth, ''Gazetteer of the Province of Sind B Vol 1 Karachi District'', Government Central Press, Bombay 1919. Reprinted by Pakistan Herald Publications Ltd, Karachi p. 86</ref>

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| before = [[Samuel Mansfield]]
| after = [[Francis Dawes Melville]]
| years = 1867–77
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