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Early life [ edit ]
Meredith was the son of Amos Meredith (1688–1745) of Chester and Johanna Cholmondely, daughter of Thomas Cholmondely of Vale Royal, Chester.[1] Christ Church, Oxford , on 24 March 1743, aged 18.[2] his baronetcy and estates on the death of his grandfather, Sir William Meredith, 2nd Baronet .[1]
Political career [ edit ]
At the 1754 general election , Meredith was returned unopposed as one of the two Members of Parliament for Wigan . By the time of the 1761 general election , the opposition at Wigan had consolidated against him and he stood instead for Liverpool , where he was returned after a contest. As one of the Rockingham Whigs, he served as a Lord of the Admiralty from 1765 to 1766. He was returned unopposed for Liverpool at the 1768 general election . In 1774, he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed Comptroller of the Household , and at the subsequent 1774 general election was again returned unopposed.[3] family estate at Henbury, Cheshire , to John Bower Jodrell for £24,000.[4] 1780 because of ill-health. In 1784 he stood again at Liverpool but withdrew before the end of the poll.[3]
Later life and legacy [ edit ]
Meredith died unmarried in Lyons , France, on 2 January 1790. His only brother Theophilus had died in 1775 leaving a daughter, and so the baronetcy became extinct. Of his sisters,
The town of Meredith, New Hampshire , is named after him.
References [ edit ]
^ a b "MEREDITH, Sir William, 3rd Bt. (?1725-90), of Henbury, Cheshire and Pierrepont, Surr" . History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 18 November 2017 .
^ Courtney, William Prideaux (1894). "Meredith, William" Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography
^ Lewis Namier, John Brooke, "TRECOTHICK, Barlow" in The House of Commons 1754-1790 , p. 557.
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