Francis Meynell
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Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (1891-1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press.
He was son of the writer 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.
[edit] References
- Sir Francis Meynell (1971) My Lives
- Dame Alix Meynell (1988) Public Servant, Private Woman: An Autobiography
[edit] Notes
- ^ John Shepherd, George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour (2004), p. 146
[edit] External links
- [1] Profile of Sir Francis Meynell
- [2] Biography at the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (subscription required)
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