Thomas Graves Meredith

Thomas Graves Meredith, K.C. (June 16, 1853 – October 18, 1945), Canadian lawyer and businessman; President of Canada Life Assurance and President of the Middlesex Bar Association. Meredith Avenue in London, Ontario is named for him.

Born at 565 Talbot Street, London, Ontario, he was the sixth son of John Walsingham Cooke Meredith, a first cousin of Sir William Collis Meredith, Edmund Allen Meredith and Sir James Creed Meredith. Tom Meredith was named after his great uncle, the Rev. Thomas Meredith, who married a daughter of Richard Graves, Dean of Ardagh in Ireland. He was the last surviving brother of the remarkable Eight London Merediths, that included Chief Justice Sir William Ralph Meredith, Chief Justice Richard Martin Meredith, Sir Vincent Meredith and Charles Meredith.

He was educated at the old Helmuth Boys College in London, and then the Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, then known as the Tassie School, from where he passed his entrance exams and matriculated at the University of Toronto. He did not graduate from the university, instead becoming a law student in the offices of Messrs Scatcherd & Meredith, of which the senior partners were Thomas Scatcherd and his eldest brother, William Ralph Meredith.

Meredith was called to the Bar of Ontario as a Barrister and a Solicitor in the Easter Term of 1878, and joined the firm he had articled with, Scatcherd & Meredith. When his brother, William, left London in 1895, Meredith was made City Solicitor of London, a position he held until his death.

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