Francis Meynell
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Sir Francis 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.
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.
[edit] References
- Sir Francis Meynell (1971) My Lives
- Dame Alix Meynell (1988) Public Servant, Private Woman: An Autobiography
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