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Meadley was born at Sunderland, County Durham, on 1 January 1774, an only son. His father died in 1775, and his mother soon afterwards moved with her five children to the adjoining town of Bishop Wearmouth.
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Meadley was born at Sunderland, County Durham, on 1 January 1774, an only son. His father died in 1775, and his mother soon afterwards moved with her five children to the adjoining town of Bishop Wearmouth.
In 1783 he was placed at the grammar school of Witton-le-Wear, under John Farrer. Leaving Durham in 1793 he lived at home, learning Italian, improving his French, and founding a subscription library at Sunderland (1795) with the help of Ferrer, by then rector of Sunderland. During 1796 Meadley was on a business voyage to the Levant.
He stayed at Naples, Smyrna and Constantinople, and collected a library of books
This was during the French Revolutionary Wars, and he fell into the hands of the French on his return voyage, spending some time as a prisoner in Spain. Learning German, he went on further mercantile voyages to Danzig (1801) and to Hamburg (1803), travelling further on foot with a friend through northern Germany.
Retiring then from trade, he began to write. In 1818 Meadley returned from researching in London and the south of England in poor health.
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At the end of 1788 he was apprenticed to Thomas Chipchase, a banker and general dealer at Durham, where Meadley became a liberal in politics. He was considered somewhat fanatical in his liberal views, and when a marble tablet to his memory was placed in the Sunderland Subscription Library, and an attempt in 1819 to have this tablet removed, on the grounds of his religious stance, leading to an angry local controversy.