{{Short description|Anglican bishop}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}} {{Use British English|date=December 2016}} '''Lewis Evan Meredith ''' (1900 - 1968<ref>''Obituary- Rt Rev L. E. Meredith Former Bishop of Dover'' The Times Saturday, 6 Jan 1968; pg. 8; Issue 57142; col G</ref>) was an Anglican bishop, the seventh Suffragan Bishop of Dover in the modern era.<ref>[http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='AA/AP/Ramsey/4-287/1962/30/325-8,%20376') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives]</ref>

Educated at Lancing College and Trinity College, Cambridge,<ref>Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}}</ref> he was ordained in 1923 and began his career with a curacy at Oswestry. From 1927 to 1931 he was a Minor Canon at Canterbury Cathedral and then held incumbencies at Wath-on-Dearne and Bognor Regis.<ref>[http://www.wilfrid.com/people/lewis_meredith.htm The Clergy of the People of Bognor: Lewis Evan Meredith]</ref> Following this he was Rural Dean of Eastbourne before ascending to the Episcopate, a post he held for 7 years. In retirement he continued to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Gloucester.

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