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Thomas Meredith (priest)

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Thomas Meredith, MA was a Welsh churchman, the Archdeacon of Singapore[1] from 1892 until 1890.[2]

Meredith was the son of James Meredith of Flintshire, educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1864, graduating B.A. in 1868, M.A. in 1871,;[3] and was ordained in 1870. After a curacy in Erbistock he was Chaplain to Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet from 1872 to 1875; and then Curate at Holy Trinity Marylebone before journeying to Singapore in 1880.[4]

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  1. ^ "Physics in Oxford, 1839-1939: Laboratories, Learning and College Life" Fox, R/Gooday, G (Eds) p22: London, OUP, 2005 ISBN 9780198567929
  2. ^ Singapore Heritage
  3. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Meredith, Thomas (2)" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
  4. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1895 London, Horace Cox, 1895 p923