Edmund Allen Meredith
Edmund Allen Meredith | |
|---|---|
| Under Secretary of State for Canada | |
| In office 1847–1867 | |
| Preceded by | Christopher Dunkin |
| Succeeded by | John Stoughton Dennis |
| Principal of McGill University | |
| In office 1846–1853 | |
| Preceded by | John Bethune |
| Succeeded by | Charles Dewey Day |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 October 1817 Ardtrea, County Tyrone, Ireland |
| Died | 2 January 1899 (aged 81) Toronto, Ontario Canada |
| Nationality | Anglo Irish-Canadian |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Edmund Allen Meredith CMG (7 October 1817 – 2 January 1899) was an Irish lawyer whose career was in public service in Canada. He was Under Secretary of State for Canada; a prison reformer, writer, president of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and the third principal of McGill University from 1846 to 1853. The diary he kept from 1844 until his death is preserved in the National Archives of Canada 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 television series.