Early Career
Following his education at Hellmuth College, the grammar school in London, William Meredith articled with Thomas Scatcherd before winning a two year scholarship to the University of Toronto to study law. At this time he also served as an officer in the London Light Infantry militia. He was called to the Bar in 1861, and entered into partnership with Scatcherd. Not before long he was considered to be "the acknowledged leader of the London Bar".
In 1871, he was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the following year he was awarded his LL.B from the University of Toronto. In 1875, he became a Queen's Counsel and after the death of his legal partner, Thomas Scatcherd, he succeeded him as London's City solicitor, a position another brother, Thomas Graves Meredith, would hold after him. From 1879 to 1888, he served as the first president of the Middlesex Law Association. In 1888, he left London to take over from William Alexander Foster's successful law firm in Toronto. That same year saw him become an honorary member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, which granted him an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1889.
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