Early Life
James Creed Meredith was the son of Sir James Creed Meredith and Ellen Graves Meredith (1848–1919), his father's third wife and the daughter of his father's first cousin, Rev. Richard Graves Meredith (1810–1871), of Timoleague, Co. Cork, the elder brother of Sir William Collis Meredith and Edmund Allen Meredith. James was one of four brothers who included the Ven. Ralph Creed Meredith and Llewellyn Meredith (1883–1967), a judge in New Zealand. His cousin, Richard Edmund Meredith, was Master of the Rolls in Ireland.
Meredith was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, from where he graduated with a Masters degree. In 1896, whilst a student at Trinity, he became the British Quarter Mile Champion, running the distance in 52 seconds and beating Fitzherbert of Cambridge, the holder of the championship. Coincidently, his future brother-in-law, Howard Meredith Percy (1879–1902), won for Canada the inter-collegiate championship in the half mile and mile runs when at McGill University. Following university, Meredith embarked upon a legal career, becoming a barrister.
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