Edmund Allen Meredith (7 October 1817 – 2 January 1899) was an Irish lawyer whose career was in public service in Canada. He was Under

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; a prison reformer, writer, president of the

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and the third principal of

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from 1846 to 1853. The

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he kept from 1844 until his death is preserved in the

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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

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Early life in Ireland

Born at Ardtrea House,

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, October 7, 1817, he was the fourth son of Rev.

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and Elizabeth Maria Graves (1791–1855), the eldest daughter of

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, 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)

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, of Riverview, Co. Cavan and Cookstown House, Co. Louth; formerly Regius Professor of

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. He was a brother of Sir

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and first cousins with Sir

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, Admiral

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, John Dawson Mayne, Major-General

Arthur Robert MacDonnell Major-General Arthur Robert MacDonnell (1835-1900) R.E., J.P., was an Anglo-Irish soldier who served with the Royal Engineers during 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia under Sir Robert Napier. McDonnell was born at Dalkey, Co. Dublin, the youngest s ...

Sir James Creed Meredith Sir James Creed Meredith (17 September 1842 – 23 January 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 Unive ...

and

John Walsingham Cooke Meredith * * John Walsingham Cooke Meredith (1809–1881) was an Irish–Canadian office holder and businessman, best remembered as the father of the ''Eight London Merediths''. He previously practised as a barrister and was a member of the first Eccentr ...

. The last named was the father of ''The Eight London Merediths'', who included among them Sir

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, one of the

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s at his funeral. Meredith was the uncle and godfather to both Sir

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and

Frederick Edmund Meredith Frederick Edmund Meredith (January 16, 1862 – September 23, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and businessman. He was the 8th Chancellor of Bishop's University; President of the Mount Royal Club; Bâtonnier of the Bar of Montreal; President of the Mo ...

. Meredith's father died suddenly and mysteriously in 1819, and his mother's second marriage led her to

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from 1824 until 1832. She took four of her children, but left the other three, including Meredith, in

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. He was left in the care of his celebrated uncle,

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, and his third wife Anna Grogan. Predominantly brought up by Graves' elderly housekeeper, in 1827 he was sent to Castleknock, a boarding school outside of

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. In 1833, he entered

, winning a classical scholarship in his second year and prizes in political economy and science. After graduating (

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and

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degree) he entered

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and then King's Inns, Dublin, to study law (becoming a

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Canada

While still at King's Inns, he was interested to see how his estranged brothers and sisters lived in

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and so he embarked on a voyage there in 1842. He stayed with his elder brother,

at what is now known as

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, and briefly resumed his study of law at his brother's offices. He returned to

in 1843 to be called to the

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, but later that year returned to Montreal, invited to do so by William. In his first diary entry of that year, Meredith talks of his decision to leave Ireland for Canada, revealing his personal angst over the upheaval: "It now seems strange to me that I could have dreamed, even for an instant, of banishing myself from the society of my brother (Richard - Secretary of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland), and setting up on my own account among complete strangers." In

, he became a member of the Shakespeare Club, a meeting of which was painted by fellow member Cornelius Krieghoff in 1847. Meredith is depicted along with other members including future Judge Frederick William Torrance, Sir Allan Napier MacNab and

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. In 1846 his brother, William, had used his influence to secure him the unpaid but prestigious position of Principal of

in Montreal, a position he held until 1853. While at McGill, Edmund Meredith played in one of the earliest games of

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to have been described. It took place in the 1850s and thirty years later was written up in the ''

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'':

Career

During his tenure at

he joined the civil service and moved with the government to

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, becoming Under Secretary of State for Canada in Sir

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's government. When the new capital,

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, was founded in 1865, much to his disappointment, he and the rest of the government were forced to move there, writing "the more I see of

, the more do I dislike and detest it." He was described as ‘one of the outstanding civil servants of his generation’, even if he was "destined to be a man forever ahead of his time." In 1870,

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offered to Meredith the Chief-Justiceship of

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, which he declined. Meredith is best remembered for his role in prison reform, of which he was an active exponent. Following the British North America Act, in 1867 he was appointed the Inspector then Chairman of the Board of Inspectors of Asylums and Prisons etc. Concerning his work on Prison Reform, the

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reported, He founded the Ottawa Art Association, served as President of the

, the Park Lawn Tennis Club (

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), the Civil Service Board, the Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society, and Vice-President of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto, and finally the part-time position in retirement as Vice-President of the Toronto Loans and Assurance Company (a.k.a.

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). However, Meredith's capacity for involving his own money in costly speculative ventures (that included organising a trip to

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in search of lost treasure) would have been something of a family joke if it hadn't proved to be so expensive for them! He wrote and published numerous articles and pamphlets, including "An Essay on the

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(1846)"; "Influence of Recent Gold Discoveries on Prices" (1856); "An Important but Neglectd Branch of Social Science" (1861); "Note on some Emendations (not hitherto suggested) in the text of Shakspeare, with a new explanation of an old passage" (1863); "Glance at the Present State of the Common Gaols of Canada; the individual separation of prisoners (with shortened sentences), recommended on moral and economic grounds" (1864); "Earth Sewage versus Water Sewage", and even a pamphlet on

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training in schools, though he himself did not enjoy "playing at soldiers." His writings, ''A Trip from Boston to Montreal in 1844'' was published in 1925 by his eldest daughter Mary Meredith.http://collectionscanada.gc.ca
/ref> Meredith was awarded an honorary M.A., from

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, and that of LL.D., from

. He was an honorary member of the

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. In 1854, he spent several weeks making use of the ''

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'' as the guest of his friend

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, at Birr Castle.

Family

At Rosedale, July 17, 1851 ("the sun shone in unclouded majesty and we had the most delightful breeze"), Meredith married Anne Frances (Fanny) Jarvis (1830–1919), the eldest and favourite daughter of

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of Rosedale by his wife, the granddaughter of

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, Mary Boyles Powell.

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, previously the Jarvis' estate is now Toronto's wealthiest residential district. After living in

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and

, Meredith was finally able to retire to

after a long-awaited 'handsome inheritance' from his Aunt Bella came through from

in 1879. On what had been the apple orchard of the original Rosedale they made their new home, 'a spacious, white-brick house of twenty two rooms', where he died January 12, 1899. Meredith Crescent in

is named for him. The Merediths were the parents of eight children: *Mary Meredith (b.1856), lived to old age but died unmarried. *Alice Louisa Meredith (b.1858), married Archibald Duncan McLean, grandson of her maternal grandfather's old friend, Chief Justice Archibald McLean. *Maude Meredith (1860–62), died an infant. *Arthur Jarvis Meredith (1862-1895), went out to

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with his first cousin, Sir Augustus Meredith Nanton, where he died. He married Isabella Osler, niece of

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and Sir Edmund Osler. After her husband died, she and their children (who include
Allen Osler Meredith
lived with her uncle, Edmund at

. *Ethel Colborne Meredith (1865—1922), married a distant cousin, Ernest Frederick Jarvis. *Clarence Meredith, died an infant in 1868. *Morna Irvine Meredith (b.1871), married Rev. Alfred Reid. They were the parents of

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C.C. *Lt.-Colonel Colborne Powell Meredith was Commissioner of the Ottawa Improvement Commission; President of the Ontario Architects Association;, and Councillor of the

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. He designed many of the principal buildings and residences in

, including the

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Hotel, as well as a number of schools and convents throughout Canada. From 1925 to 1934 Colborne Meredith served as General-Secretary to the

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Society of Canada. He married Emily Griffin of

. They are the great-grandparents of

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. Meredith's wife had enjoyed "a blessed childhood, with love on all sides", though she was undoubtedly spoilt as the eldest and prettiest daughter. In 1835, to celebrate her fifth birthday, her mother planted a sapling which has since grown into the famous Rosedale Elm. When she was seven she crept out of bed to witness "a magnificent masquerade ball (at Rosedale) that a whole generation of Toronto party-goers would hold benchmark the rest of their lives." She loved horses, keeping two for her carriage and another for cross country adventures, when she would sport a low-crowned beaver hat with a green veil. Her summers were filled with constant riding parties and picnics, including 'a never-to-be-forgotten adventure: Bark canoes paddled by Indians through five miles (8 km) of rapids', whilst on a visit to cousins at

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on the

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. She spent two years at finishing school in

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(where she was delighted to witness the barricades being flung up in the streets during the French Revolution of 1848) before returning to Canada to spend the winter of 1848/49 in Montreal with the family of Edmund's brother, Sir

, beginning her courtship with Meredith.

Writings

Glance at the Present State of the Common Gaols of Canada, 1864

Earth Sewage versus Water Sewage, 1868

References

Laid Beside His Son - Funeral of the late Dr Meredith
Daily Mail and Empire, January 17, 1899
Member of U.E.L. Family - Mrs Edmund Meredith, Widow of Former McGill Principal, Dead
Montreal Gazette, October 4, 1919
"Recollections" Written at Age of Eighty-Two
Ottawa Citizen, April 11, 1959
Not much Ceremony Then
Ottawa Citizen, April 29, 1959
The Inescapable Stink of Early Ottawa
Ottawa Citizen, October 29, 1984
Pioneer Mandarin's Life - $3,600 A Year and Discreet Perks
Ottawa Citizen, October 30, 1984
Dazzling Kaleidoscope at the Governor-General's Ball
Ottawa Citizen, October 31, 1984
Too Much a Canadian For Own Good
Ottawa Citizen, January 2, 1954
Biography at ''the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''

Photographs

The Gate Lodge to Ardtrea House, Co. Tyrone

Edmund Allen Meredith with his family at their home in Toronto c.1890

Frances Anne (Jarvis) Meredith in 1865

Daughter Mary Meredith (1856-1924) in fancy dress, 1876

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