Francis Meynell

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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. He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector in the First World War.

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

[edit] External links

• [1] Profile of Sir Francis Meynell
• [www.oxforddnb.com/index/101031442/] Biography at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription required)