Richard Martin Meredith

Richard Martin Meredith (27 March 1847 – 20 May 1934) was a co-founder and the first Chancellor of The University of Western Ontario; vice-chancellor of Ontario; President of the High Court of the Supreme Court of Ontario and Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Common Pleas. Family Born at 565 Talbot Street, London, Canada West, he was one of the eight sons of John Walsingham Cooke Meredith, a first cousin of Chief Justice Sir William Collis Meredith, Edmund Allen Meredith and James Creed Meredith. He shared the same name as one of his great uncles (the father of James Creed Meredith), who was named for Richard Martin, a contemporary of Meredith's great-grandfather, Ralph Meredith (1748–1799), Attorney Exchequer and Justice of the Peace for County Dublin. His brothers, known as The Eight London Merediths, included Chief Justice William Ralph Meredith, Vincent Meredith, Thomas Graves Meredith Q.C., and Charles Meredith, first cousins of Richard Edmund Meredith and Frederick Walsingham Meredith, President of the Law Society of Ireland. Legal career