Edmund Allen Meredith (7 October 1817 – 2 January 1899) CMG, LL.D., M.A., was Under Secretary of State for Canada; a prison reformer, writer, President of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and the third principal of McGill University from 1846 to 1853. The Diary he kept from 1844 until his death is preserved in the National Archives of Canada and formed the basis for the first half of Sandra Gwyns book The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1985), which the CBC later made into a Television series.
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