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Meredith, Edward, 1648-ca. 1715
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1648-ca. 1715
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MEREDITH, EDWARD, son of Rev. Edward Meredith, Rector of Landulph, Cornwall, and Alice, fourth dau., of William Kekewich, Catchfrench, Cornwall; b. 1648; adm.; KS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1665, matr. 14 Jul 1665, aged 17, Westminster Student 19 Dec 1665 – void 1675; BA (Christ Church Act Book) 1669; MA (same) 1672; Secretary to Sir William Godolphin (qv) during his Embassy to Spain; a Roman Catholic convert; present at the conference between Tenison and Andrew Pulton 29 Sep 1687; went abroad after Revolution of 1688; living in Italy after 1700; joined Jesuit community in Rome, but prevented by ill-health from taking final vows; controversialist; author, Some Remarques upon a late popular piece of nonsense called Julian the Apostate, etc. 1682, and other works; d. in Italy c. 1715. DNB.
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GB 2014
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.