A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Meredith, Samuel
MEREDITH. (Commander, 1828. f-p., 24; h-p., 15.)
Samuel Meredith entered the Navy, 8 May, 1808, as a Volunteer, on board the Cadmus 10, Capt. Delamere Wynter, attached to the force in the Channel. After serving off Greenwich in the Thisbe 28, flag-ship of Hon. Sir Henry Edwin Stanhope, and in the North Sea and off Greenland in the Belvidera 36, Capt. Rich. Byron, he became Midshipman, 22 Sept. 1810, of the Malacca 36, Capts. Wm. Butterfield and Sam. Leslie, with the latter of whom he continued employed on the East India station in the Volage 22, and Theban 36, until April, 1816. In the Volage he witnessed an attack made, 28 June, 1813, upon the defences of Sambas, a piratical state on the western coast of Borneo, as he also did, in Sept. of the same year, the restoration of the Sultan of Palambang to his throne. Of the Theban, Mr. Meredith, who had been acting in her for nine months, was confirmed a Lieutenant 24 Nov. 1815. His appointments after he left her were – 6 Sept. 1816, to the Larne 20, Capt. Abraham Lowe, employed in the Channel and West Indies, whence he returned in Jan. 1819 – 11 July, 1820, to the Severn 40, Capt. Wm. McCulloch, lying in the Downs for the purposes of the Coast Blockade – 6 Dec. 1822, to the Prince Regent 120, flag-ship of Sir Benj. Hallowell at Chatham – 11 April, 1823, and, again, 4 Sept. 1824, to the post of Agent for Transports Afloat – and, 8 April, 1825, to the command of the Vigilant cutter of 12 guns, on the Plymouth station. He was advanced to his present rank 7 May, 1828; and was subsequently, from 6 July, 1830, until 1833, and, again, from 20 March, 1835, until 1838, employed as an Inspecting Commander in the Coast Guard.
The Commander, who is Chief Constable for co. Wilts, married, 21 June, 1819, Lydia, third daughter of John Dyer, Esq., Secretary of Greenwich Hospital. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.