Vincent Meredith [SEP] father
House for his wife.
Family.
(Henry) Vincent Meredith was born in London, Ontario, the fifth son of John Walsingham Cooke Meredith and Sarah Pegler. One of his great uncles, Boyle Meredith (1788–1873), married Eliza Gough Vincent (1797–1870), a niece of General John Vincent and a cousin of Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough. It was after her family that he was given his middle name, which he chose to use as his first. He was one of a group of brothers
Meredith and Sir James Creed Meredith. He shared the same name as one of his great uncles (the father of Sir 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 Co. Dublin. His brothers, known as "The Eight London Merediths", included Chief Justice Sir William Ralph Meredith, Sir Vincent Meredith, Thomas Graves Meredith Q.C., and Charles Meredith, first cousins of The Rt. Hon