Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet and clergyman. Alternative signature: W. M. Meredith. Born in Bristol. Educated at Magdalen Hall, and Hertford College, Oxford. Ordained a priest in 1873. Senior Chaplain of Edinburgh Cathedral (1876-1887). Author of several pamphlets and sermons including A Few Words on Marriage (1890) and What ever made you join the English Church? (1885). Author information from Chambers’s Journal ledger entry for The Old Coin’s Teaching, published on 1 December 1900, which lists the author as Rev. W. M. Meredith, of The Rectory, Crieff (NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: Foster, Alumni Oxonienses, vol. 3-4, p. 945; Yearbook for the Episcopal Church in Scotland, St. Giles, 1900, p. 147; Rev. William Macdonald Meredith (1849-1931), Ancestry. (AC, CC)