 He was a co-founder of the Mount Royal Club, and he had owned the land on which the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal was built, becoming a principal shareholder with a significant influence on its image and future.His mansion in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, now known as Charles Meredith House, is currently part of McGill University.He was born in 1854 at London, Upper Canada, the seventh son of John Walsingham Cooke Meredith and his wife, Sarah Pegler (1818–1900).