possessed 'troops' of friends and was 'held in the highest respect in the City and Province of Quebec, by all classes of the community' and even more extraordinary for the time, was described as being as popular among the French as the English. This is noticeably apparent in an article written about him in L'Opinion Publique on 10 July 1879 : . "Esteemed for his high character, wide knowledge and amiable disposition", "his lofty conception of duty, his great learning, and his gentleness of character commanded the admiration and affection of the bench and bar of Quebec." Sir William Colles Meredith died 26 February 1894, aged eighty two after a short illness, and he was buried with many of his family at Mount Hermon Cemetery, Sillery. Part of the inscription on his gravestone reads, "... Thoughtful consideration for others marked all his acts and made bright his daily walk through life." References Le Revue du Bar, Quebec Les Juges de la Province de Québec (1933), P.G. Roy Quebec National Archives McGill University Archives, Montreal McCord Museum, Montreal Quebec Literary and Historical Society Laval University Archives, Quebec Bishop's University Archives, Lennoxville Burkes Landed Gentry of Ireland The Private Capital (1989), Sandra Gwynn Rawdon Historical Society Correspondence of Edgar Allan Collard The Canadian Legal News The Canadian Dictionary of National Biography My Canadian Leaves: An account of a visit to Canada (1864–1865), Feo Monck Archives of the Montreal Star Archives of the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph Archives of L'Electeur Archives of the L'Opinion Publique 1812 births 1894 deaths Judges in Quebec Canadian Knights Bachelor Canadian King's Counsel Irish emigrants to Canada (before 1923) Canadian Anglicans Burials at Mount Hermon Cemetery Canadian duellists