Meredith, William George

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Meredith, William George

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        1804-1831

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        William George Meredith, author, was the son of the architect George Meredith (1762-1831) and nephew of W.G. Meredith (1756/7-1831). He earned a bachelor's degree from Oxford in 1824 and his master's in 1829. Meredith was in Cairo, possibly preparing for his next book, when he died on 19 July 1831.

        Meredith wrote Memorials of Charles John, King of Sweden and Norway (1829) and may also have been the author of A tour to the Rhine: With antiquarian and other notices (1825). He was intending to write The History of International intercourse. From the Earliest Accredited Periods to the Congress of Vienna before he died.

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            James King, "The Meredith Family, Thomas Taylor, and William Blake", <i>Studies in Romanticism</i> Vol. 11, No. 2 (Spring, 1972), pp. 153-157.

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