Sir William Meredyth, 1st Baronet (c. 1620 – 14 February 1665) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and politician.
[1] Meredyth was the son of Sir Robert Meredyth, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland, and Anne, daughter of Sir William Ussher, clerk of the council in Ireland.
[1] Meredyth was a major in the New Model Army during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
Despite his association with the Commonwealth, following the Stuart Restoration he was created a baronet, of Greenhills in the Baronetage of Ireland, by Charles II of England on 20 November 1660.
Upon Meredyth's death in 1665, he was buried in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and succeeded in his title by his eldest surviving son, Richard Meredyth.