Edmund Allen Meredith
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Edmund Allen Meredith CMG |
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| Under Secretary of State for Canada | |
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In office 1847–1867 |
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| Preceded by | Christopher Dunkin |
| Succeeded by | John Stoughton Dennis |
| Principal of McGill University | |
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In office 1846–1853 |
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| Preceded by | John Bethune |
| Succeeded by | Charles Dewey Day |
| Personal details | |
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7 October 1817 Ardtrea, County Tyrone Ireland |
| Died | 2 January 1899 (aged 81) Toronto, Ontario Canada |
| Nationality | Anglo Irish-Canadian |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Religion | Anglican |
Edmund Allen Meredith CMG (7 October 1817 – 2 January 1899) was Under Secretary of State for Canada; a prison reformer, writer, amateur scientist, president of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and the third principal of McGill University from 1846 to 1853. The diary he kept from 1844 until his death is preserved in the National Archives of Canada and formed the basis for the first half of Sandra Gwyn's book The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1985), which the CBC later made into a television series.
Born at Ardtrea House, County Tyrone, October 7, 1817. He was the fourth son of Rev. Thomas Meredith and Elizabeth Maria Graves (1791–1855), the eldest daughter of Richard Graves, Dean of Ardagh. He was named after his aunt's (Martha Meredith's) husband, "that eccentric genius, the late truly learned and honest" (Christopher) Edmund Allen (1776–1826) LL.D, of Riverview, Co. Cavan and Cookstown House, Co. Louth; formerly Regius Professor of Common Law at Trinity College, Dublin. He was a brother of Sir William Collis Meredith and first cousins with Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell, Francis Brinkley, Admiral Richard Charles Mayne, John Dawson Mayne, Major-General Arthur Robert MacDonnell, Sir James Creed Meredith and John Walsingham Cooke Meredith. The last named was the father of The Eight London Merediths, who included among them Sir William Ralph Meredith, one of the Pall-bearers at his funeral. Meredith was the uncle and godfather to both Sir Augustus Meredith Nanton and Frederick Edmund Meredith.
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