The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

For the founder of Swansea Tasmania see George Meredith (Tasmanian settler). His wife ran off with Wallis in 1858; George Meredith died three years later. At the age of 14 he was sent to a Moravian School in Neuwied Germany where he remained for two years.

For the founder of Swansea Tasmania see George Meredith (Tasmanian settler). This article is about the novelist.