Francis Meynell

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Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (12 May 1891 – 10 July 1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press.

He was the son of the journalist and publisher Wilfrid Meynell and the poet Alice Meynell, a suffragist and prominent Roman Catholic convert. Francis Meynell was brought in by George Lansbury to be business manager of the Daily Herald in 1913.^[1] 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

↑ John Shepherd, George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour (2004), p. 146

External links

Profile of Sir Francis Meynell
Biography at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription required)

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Name	Meynell, Francis
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Short description	British poet and printer
Date of birth	1891
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Date of death	1975
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