William Edward Meade (24 February 1832 – 12 October 1912) was [1] a Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.
[2][3] Born in county Cork, where his father William was a clergyman, he attended school in Midleton and then university at Trinity College, Dublin,[4] becoming a Scholar in 1856, and earning BA in mathematics 1857, and MA in 1860.
[5] In 1873 he became a Bachelor (BD) and a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
[6] He was Rector of Ardtrea and then Archdeacon of Armagh from 1885[7] until his elevation to the episcopate in 1893.
[8] He married Mary Ferrier, the daughter of Fleetwood Churchill of Dublin.