Richard Martin Meredith

Richard Martin Meredith Q.C. (27 March 1847 – 20 May 1934) was a co-founder and the first Chancellor of The University of Western Ontario; vice-chancellor of Ontario; President of the High Court of the Supreme Court of Ontario and Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Common Pleas.

Born at 565 Talbot Street, London, Ontario, he was one of the eight sons of John Walsingham Cooke Meredith, a first cousin of Chief Justice Sir William Collis Meredith, Edmund Allen Meredith and Sir James Creed Meredith. He shared the same name as one of his great uncles (the father of Sir James Creed Meredith), who was named for Richard Martin, a contemporary of Meredith's great grandfather, Ralph Meredith (1748–1799), Attorney Exchequer and Justice of the Peace for Co. Dublin. His brothers, known as The Eight London Merediths, included Chief Justice Sir William Ralph Meredith, Sir Vincent Meredith, Thomas Graves Meredith Q.C., and Charles Meredith, first cousins of The Rt. Hon. Richard Edmund Meredith and Frederick Walsingham Meredith, President of the Law Society of Ireland.