Background
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only son of Frederick Edmund Meredith and Anne Madeleine VanKoughnet.
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, the only son of Frederick Edmund Meredith and Anne Madeleine VanKoughnet.
He also studied for a year at the University of Grenoble in France.
Educated in England at Summer Fields School. Wellington College, Berkshire. And, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Considered an expert in litigation, he became a senior partner in his father"s law firm and was made a King"s Counsel in 1942.
He was selected by the government to be the special federal prosecutor at the trial of Fred Rose. He was governor of Selwyn House School and Bishop"s University.
In 1950, John Wilson McConnell, Governor of McGill University, persuaded him to take up the position of Dean at Law at McGill. He held this position until his death.
They were the parents of one son, but divorced 14 November 1949.
He died in 1960, and is buried at Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. The Meredith Memorial Lectures at McGill University are named in his memory.
Privately, he was an amateur radio enthusiast who enjoyed tennis and skiing and had in his early years been a member of the Montreal Hunt.