Francis Meynell

Francis Meynell

Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell, KB (1891 - 1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press.

He was son of the writer Alice Meynell, a suffragist and Roman Catholic. George Lansbury brought him in to be business manager of the "Daily Herald" in 1913. [John Shepherd, "George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour" (2004), p. 146.] He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector in World War I.

He was knighted in 1946. He married Alix Kilroy (1903 - 1999), a civil servant with the Board of Trade.

They worked together during World War II on Utility Design,an austere and functional style. After the war they lived and farmed in a secluded part of Suffolk for many years. Their union was childless.

References

* Sir Francis Meynell (1971) "My Lives"
* Dame Alix Meynell (1988) "Public Servant, Private Woman: An Autobiography"

Notes

External links

* [http://www.myfonts.com/person/meynell/francis/] Profile of Sir Francis Meynell
* [www.oxforddnb.com/index/101031442/] Biography at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription required)


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