Sir James Creed Meredith
| James Creed Meredith | |
|---|---|
| Born |
17 September 1842 Chatham, Kent |
| Died | 1912 |
| Known for | Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, Chancellor to the Diocese of Limerick, Secretary to the Royal University of Ireland, Secretary to the National University of Ireland |
Sir James Creed Meredith (17 September 1842 – 1912) was Deputy Grand Master and Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Ireland; Chancellor of the Diocese of Limerick; Secretary to the Royal University of Ireland and the National University of Ireland. A prominent Freemason, J. Creed Meredith Masonic Lodge at Belfast was named in his honour. He is not to be confused with his son, Judge James Creed Meredith.
Born at Chatham, Kent, where his Anglo-Irish father was stationed as Commandant of the 13th Somerset Light Infantry. He was the son of Major Richard Martin Meredith (1792–1869) and his wife Adelaide (1803–1870), daughter of James Creed (1756–1844) of Uregare (also known as Newlawn House), near Kilmallock, County Limerick. His mother's family had lived at Ballygrennan Castle near Kilmallock, since the 17th century but her uncle divided up the land after his only daughter, Mrs Eliza (Creed) Bowyer Bower, removed with her husband to Iwerne Minster House, Dorset. When Meredith's father - a lifelong friend and correspondent of Robert James Graves (whose sister married his brother Thomas Meredith) - was eventually offered to purchase a colonelcy, he instead retired and invested in just over 1,000 acres of land in County Cork, while living at St Stephen's Green in Dublin, where Meredith grew up.
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