Early Life
He was born in 1854 at London, Upper Canada, the seventh son of John Walsingham Cooke Meredith and his wife Sarah Pegler (1818–1900). Charles and his well-known brothers were collectively known as The Eight London Merediths who included Sir William Ralph Meredith, Chief Justice Richard Martin Meredith, Sir Vincent Meredith and Thomas Graves Meredith Q.C. Meredith and his brothers were cousins of, and well known to Judge Richard Edmund Meredith, Frederick Edmund Meredith, William Archer Redmond and Judge James Creed Meredith. Charles Meredith was privately educated at home before briefly attending Hellmuth College, London, and then embarking on his business career.
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