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About Sir Robert Meredith
Attended Trinity College, Dublin in 1609 & Lincoln's Inn 3 July 1611. MP for Boyle, Roscommen in 1613 & MP for Augher in 1634, as well as Chancellor of the Exchequer,
In 1659 he lived at Hangman's Parish, St Michan's Parish, Dublin. [also in 1668]
Will dated 10 September 1664, proved 12 June 1669
Sir Robert Meredith was knighted at Dublin on 6 Sep 1635 by Lord Wentworth, Lord Deputy of Ireland.
https://www.dib.ie/biography/meredith-meredyth-robert-a9784
He died on 17 October 1668 and was buried in the Meredith family vault in St Patrick's cathedral (by 'torch light without expense', if his last wishes were honoured). He left his widow 'the house in the lane leading from Church Street to Mary Abbey' near King's Inns (Wright, 135). She died on 12 May 1669.
Three of Meredith's sons came to prominence: Adam, who wrote a controversial pamphlet attacking Ormond and his allies that was published with Sir John Temple's help in 1646, died in battle in 1647; William, who was returned to the protectorate parliament for Co. Wicklow in 1654, one of a significant number of electoral victories for the old protestant interest over the army that year, died in 1665; Charles, the third son, who married Sir Robert King's daughter Mary in 1655, sat in the Irish parliament for Old Leighlin (1661–6) and Gowran (1692–3); he served as chancellor of the exchequer (1674–87 and 1693–5), was appointed to the Irish privy council in 1671, and died in 1700. Meredith's daughters included Anne (died 11 July 1637); Grissel, who married George Carr, secretary to both Wentworth and Ormond and sometime clerk of the hanaper; Alice, who married in 1653 Charles Coote, 2nd earl of Mountrath; and Elizabeth, who married Thomas Juxon, an English adventurer, puritan and sugar trader whose noted diary of contemporary events in London was published in the Camden series by Cambridge University Press in 1999.
1668 Sir Robert Meredyth d. Oct 17 buried Oct 19 in the Meredyth vault
1669 Anne, daughter of Sir William Usher and widow of Sir Robert Meredyth, died May 12 and buried May 15 in the Meredyth vault.
1670 Sir Amos Meredyth, Bart, d. Dec 6 buried 8 Dec in the Meredyth vault.
Sir Robert Meredith's Timeline
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1585
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Greenehill, Kildare, Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
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1620 |
1620
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Greenehill, Kildare, Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
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1668 |
October 17, 1668
Age 83
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Dublin, Ireland
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October 19, 1668
Age 83
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St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland
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