MEREST, JOHN, brother of Charles Merest (qv); b. 3 Jun 1734; adm. May 1743; left 1751.
MEREST, JAMES, brother of Charles Merest (qv); b. 15 Jul 1750; adm.; left 1764; Oriel Coll. Oxford, matr. 30 May 1775; ordained deacon 20 May 1777, priest 14 Sep 1777 (both Winchester); Curate, Chertsey, Surrey 1777; Vicar of Wroughton, Wilts. (by 1783); Rector of Brandon Ferry and Wortham, Suffolk (by 1783); m. (by 1782) Sarah ---; d. 31 Mar 1827.
MEREST, CHARLES, eldest son of James Merest, Clerk Assistant, House of Lords, and his second wife Jane, sixth dau. of Charles Battely, Secondary in Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer’s Office, and Receiver-Gen., Westminster Abbey; b. 28 Apr 1729; adm. Jan 1740/1; ordained deacon (Durham, lit. dim. from Winchester) 18 Mar 1753; Vicar of Chertsey, Surrey, from 1758; m. 27 Jul 1754 Elizabeth Wilkin, Mildenhall, Suffolk; d. 26 Nov 1786.
MEREDYTH, THOMAS, son of Thomas Meredyth, Dublin, merchant; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jan 1747/8; KS 1750; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1754, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1754, aged 17, but did not matr.; migr. to Trinity Coll. Dublin, adm. pens. 20 Dec 1754; d. 1756.
MEREDYTH, ---; b.; adm.; QS 1568-9 (Chapter Muniments 54017-8, 54020). [Probably Daniel Meredyth, third son of Meredith Thomas, Bailiff of Brecon; a letter from his father to his eldest son Thomas, Secretary to Dean Goodman 1563-76, states that he would like Daniel “to be of the number of the scollers at Westmr” (Chapter Muniments)]
MEREDITH, SIR WILLIAM, BART., second son of Amos Meredith, Chester, Cheshire, and Joanna, dau. of Thomas Cholmondeley, Vale Royal, Cheshire; bapt. St. John the Baptist, Chester 10 Mar 1724 (IGI); adm. (aged 13) Oct 1738 (Playford's); left 1742; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 Mar 1742/3; DCL 14 Apr 1749 (incorp. LLD Cambridge 1758); succ. grandfather as 3rd baronet Jan 1752; of Henbury, Cheshire; MP Wigan 1754-61, Liverpool 1761-80; Lord of the Admiralty Aug 1765 – Nov 1766; Comptroller of the Household Mar 1774 – Dec 1777, resigning on grounds of his opposition to the American war; Privy Councillor 9 Mar 1774; a prominent member of the House of Commons; author, Historical Remarks on the Taxation of Free States, 1778, and other pamphlets; d. unm. at Lyon, France 2 Jan 1790. DNB.
MEREDITH, WILLIAM MAXSE, son of George Meredith OM, Flint Cottage, Boxhill, Surrey, novelist and poet, and his second wife Marie, dau. of Justin Vulliamy, Mickleham, Surrey; b. 26 Jul 1865; adm. 26 Jan 1881 (G); left May 1882; spent his early years in engineering works; AMICE 5 May 1891; director, Constable & Co., publishers; President, Publishers’ Association 1917-9, 1927; edited The Letters of George Meredith, 1912; Ordre de la Couronne, Belgium; m. 4 Oct 1892 Margaret, dau. of Ralph Elliot, Leith Hill, Surrey; d. 1 Feb 1937.
MEREDITH, THEOPHILUS, brother of Sir William Meredith, Bart. (qv); bapt. 4 Aug 1730; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1743/4 (Watts'); left 1747; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 2 Jun 1747, Canoneer Student 1 Jul 1747 – void 7 Jan 1752; migr. to St. Edmund’s Hall, Oxford; BA 1761; MA 1762; adm. Inner Temple 29 Oct 1748; ordained; Vicar of Linton, Herefs., from 21 Sep 1769; Rector of Ross on Wye, Herefs., from 27 Sep 1771; Prebendary of Hereford from 27 Sep 1771; m. 27 Oct 1772 Dyonisia, second dau. of John Walker, Lyneham, Wilts.; d. 16 Sep 1775.
MEREDITH, ROGER, sixth son of Sir William Meredith, Bart., and his first wife Susanna, dau. of Francis Barker, London; b.; at school under Busby (Alum. Cant. ); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 9 Feb 1656/7, matr. 1658; BA 1658; Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 3 Jan 1662; MA 1662; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 4 Feb 1656/7; Professor of Law, Gresham Coll., London 1673-87; Secretary to Sir William Temple 1674-80; FRS 6 Apr 1681; a Master in Chancery from 1688; m. 10 Dec 1687 (IGI) Anne, dau. of Sir Brocket Spencer, Bart.; d. 17 Feb 1700/1.
MEREDITH, RICHARD, son of Edward Meredith, Stanton (perhaps Stansty, parish of Wrexham), Denbighshire; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1612, adm. scholar 1613, matr. Mich. 1612; BA 1616/7; MA 1620; BD 1627; DD 1634; Fellow, Trinity Coll. 1618 – ejected 8 Apr 1644, Senior Bursar 1638-42, Senior Dean 1642-4; ordained; Rector of Farthingstone, Northants 9 Nov 1627-9; Rector of Wappenham, Northants 28 Jul 1632 -–res 1639/40; Rector of Fakenham, Norfolk, from 1640; Rector of Hellesdon, Norfolk, from 1650; d. 5 Dec 1655.