Richard Edmund Meredith PC, QC (18 November 1855 – 26 January 1916),[1] was the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, a Privy Councillor and Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission.
In 1894, he was admitted as a Bencher of King's Inns, Dublin, where he was for a long time the youngest member of that body by a considerable number of years.
On Meredith's death The Irish Times reported, His youthful appearance on the Bench attracted the notice of strangers, but no person could have been present at any case without being struck by the easy mastery he possessed of every question raised by the contending counsel on each side...
After the toil of court there was no person who more thoroughly appreciated the pleasure of a social gathering, and he was frequently to be found at those concerts where a good song formed part of the entertainment.At Dublin in 1880, he married Anne, daughter of John Pollock of Harcourt Street, Dublin, by his wife and cousin Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Nicholas Purdon-Stoute of Newtown House, near Youghal in County Waterford, whose father (John Stoute Purdon-Stoute) had taken the name of Stoute on inheriting Newtown.
Their eldest son, Lt.-Colonel William Rice Meredith (1882-1964) C.B.E., D.S.O., was a Gold Staff Officer at the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.