McGill Library
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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Meredith, Henry Vincent, Sir, 1850-1929
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Description area
Dates of existence
1850-1929
History
Sir Henry Vincent Meredith, 1st Baronet was born on February 28, 1850, in London, Ontario.
He was a Canadian banker and generous philanthropist. He was the first Canadian-born president of the Bank of Montreal from 1913 to 1927. He was also president of the Royal Victoria Hospital and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. He served as Governor of McGill University and on the board of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian Mental Health Association. 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. 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.
In 1888, he married Isabel Brenda (Lady Meredith) Allan. He died on February 24, 1929, in Montreal, Quebec.