Edmund Meyrick was a Welsh Anglican priest in the 16th century.
Edmund was born at Bala and educated there before going up to Jesus College, Oxford.
He remained a committed catholic through the Marian counter-reformation gaining a Bachelor of Civil Laws (BCL) at the Elizabethan succession.
Jesus had a long tradition of educating priests sending Meyrick back to Wales to enter the church hierarchy at Bangor where he was made archdeacon.
Already a canon of Lichfield he was created Chancellor of St Asaph’s diocese in 1559.