Edmund Allen Meredith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edmund Allen Meredith

Canadian civil servant

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1817

Place of Birth: County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 02-Jan-1899

Profession: diarist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Edmund Allen Meredith (7 October 1817 – 2 January 1899) was Under Secretary of State for Canada; a prison reformer, writer, amateur scientist, 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 Gwyn's book The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier (1985), which the CBC later made into a television series.