{{Short description|American historian, educator, and writer}} '''Colyer Meriwether''' (8 April 1858 – 26 August 1920) was an American historian, educator, and writer.<ref name="ancestry">[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tmsirecords/colyermeriwetherbiography.html "Colyer Meriwether" at Ancestry.com], citing Rossiter Johnson. (1904). ''The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans''; retrieved 2013-6-7.</ref>

==Early life== Meriwether was born in Clark’s Hill, South Carolina. He earned an undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1886, and the university awarded him a Ph.D. in 1893.<ref name="ancestry"/>

==Career== In 1889–1892, Meriwether was employed by the Japanese government in Sendai.<ref name="ancestry"/>

He was elected a member of the Asiatic Society of Japan and the American Historical Association. He was secretary and treasurer of the Southern History Association.<ref name="ancestry"/>

==Selected works== * ''History of Higher Education in South Carolina,'' 1889 * ''Date Masamune and His Embassy to Rome,'' 1892

==See also== * Foreign government advisors in Meiji Japan

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