His home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile was made a National Historic Site of Canada in 1990 and is today part of McGill University, named Lady Meredith House for his wife.

After an initial education at "a home rich in cultural elements",[1] he briefly attended the Hellmuth Boys College at London, Ontario, before joining the Bank of Montreal as a clerk in 1867.

Many of them must remain in important but inconspicuous employments, receiving little reward for their labors, the chief credit being given to those at the head of affairs.

All the eminent offices he acquired and holds in the Bank of Montreal were won by no other means than he derived from his native abilities, integrity and constancy.

If any man were asked to account for the influence of Sir Vincent Meredith upon Canadian affairs, he would unhesitatingly ascribe it to rare force of character.

When one considers the work of Sir Vincent Meredith, it is impossible to refuse him the praise of being the most eminent of living Canadian bankers Among many other positions, Vincent Meredith was a member of the Montreal Board of Trade, a member of the board of directors of Canadian Pacific Railway; the Royal Exchange Assurance Co., of London, England; the Royal Trust Assurance Co., of Montreal (also serving as that company's president for a time); the Standard Life Assurance Company of Edinburgh and Dominion Textile.

He was created a hereditary Baronet of the United Kingdom by King George V for his wartime services to Canada and the British Empire in 1916.

As a wedding gift, his father-in-law gave him and his wife a parcel of land on the corner of Pine Avenue and Peel Street in the Golden Square Mile, just across from Ravenscrag, where Lady Meredith's cousin, Sir Montagu Allan, lived.

[2][3] Following the First World War, when wounded Canadian soldiers started to return from the Front in 1918, Lady Meredith set up a rehabilitation centre for officers at her and Vincent's Montreal home.

She served as president of the Purple Cross (a service for the care of wounded and disabled horses on the battlefield during World War I); president of the Canadian Women's Army Auxiliary Corps; governor of the Royal Victoria's Maternity Hospital; director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; vice president of the Women's National Immigration Society, and honorary patroness of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire with Lady Eugène Fiset and Lady H. Montagu Allan.

In 1909 he gave the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal (where he solely sponsored an annual ball for the nurses) an automobile, Canada's first motor ambulance, but as with all his gifts and donations, refused to allow anything of it to be mentioned in the papers.

Vincent rode with the Montreal Hunt, played polo in Senneville, Quebec, and they both imported many fine horses from Ireland and England.

Both he and Lady Meredith had a great interest in music and art and were one of the most enthusiastic supporters of Grand Opera in Montreal, Quebec.

A flash of his eye and a sarcastic phrase was sufficient to puncture conceit, rebuke stupidity or quell insubordinationSir Vincent Meredith died in 1929 without children, and thus his short-lived baronetcy became extinct.