IRISH BARONETCY

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1931, Page 4

IRISH BARONETCY

OLD STOREMAN’S CLAIM. A story involving claims to an oldestablished Irish baronetcy was disclosed at the death of an old storeman from cancer in the Liverpool Hospital recently. The man claimed to be the twelfth baronet of a line that was established in the days of King Charles. Though he never used the title, he had informed his friends during his life that his right to the title of Sir Charles George Meredyth had never been questioned. Born in Tasmania in 1856, Meredyth was apprenticed to the sea. Later he entered the railway service and for more than 20 years was a railway guard. For the past 16 years he was employed by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company as a storeman, and lived in New South Wales; His father, he said, had succeeded to the title while he was a cabman in Hobart, and his right to it, he had informed friends, had been indisputably established. _ ■ In 1912, Mr Meredyth visited Ireland with the object of laying claim to some estates, but his claim was unsuccessful on the lawsuit that followed owing, he always declared, to the fact that his’family had been so long absent.

Nine children survive Mr Meredyth. The eldest son, Cyril, an engineer, who his family say, will succeed to the title, is at present in Western Australia. . ,