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Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell, KB
Knight Bachelor

The rank of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. It is the rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised Chivalric order....
 (1891 - 1975) was a British poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and printer
Printer (publisher)

A printer is a company that provides commercial printing services, often also offering typesetting and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing presses, or who run printing companies....
 at The Nonesuch Press.

He was son of the writer Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an England writer, editing, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.She was born in Barnes, London, London, to Thomas James and Christiana Thompson....
, a suffragist and Roman Catholic. George Lansbury
George Lansbury

George Lansbury was a United Kingdom politician, Socialism, Christian pacifism and newspaper editor. He was a Member of Parliament from 1910 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1940, and leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935....
 brought him in to be business manager of the Daily Herald
Daily Herald

The Daily Herald was a United Kingdom newspaper, published in London from 1912 to 1964 . It ceased publication when it was relaunched as The Sun ....
 in 1913. He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector
Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war or, in some cases, to take any role that would support a combatant organization armed forces....
 in World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
.

He was knighted in 1946. He married Alix Kilroy
Alix Kilroy

Dame Alix Kilroy, Lady Meynell, DBE was one of the first two women to have entered the administrative grade of the Civil Service by examination ....
 (1903 - 1999), a civil servant with the Board of Trade.

They worked together during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 on Utility Design, an austere and functional style.






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Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell, KB
Knight Bachelor

The rank of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. It is the rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised Chivalric order....
 (1891 - 1975) was a British poet
Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
 and printer
Printer (publisher)

A printer is a company that provides commercial printing services, often also offering typesetting and book-binding services. The term can also refer to people who operate printing presses, or who run printing companies....
 at The Nonesuch Press.

He was son of the writer Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was an England writer, editing, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.She was born in Barnes, London, London, to Thomas James and Christiana Thompson....
, a suffragist and Roman Catholic. George Lansbury
George Lansbury

George Lansbury was a United Kingdom politician, Socialism, Christian pacifism and newspaper editor. He was a Member of Parliament from 1910 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1940, and leader of the Labour Party from 1932 to 1935....
 brought him in to be business manager of the Daily Herald
Daily Herald

The Daily Herald was a United Kingdom newspaper, published in London from 1912 to 1964 . It ceased publication when it was relaunched as The Sun ....
 in 1913. He was imprisoned as a conscientious objector
Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an individual who, on religious, moral or ethical grounds, refuses to participate as a combatant in war or, in some cases, to take any role that would support a combatant organization armed forces....
 in World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
.

He was knighted in 1946. He married Alix Kilroy
Alix Kilroy

Dame Alix Kilroy, Lady Meynell, DBE was one of the first two women to have entered the administrative grade of the Civil Service by examination ....
 (1903 - 1999), a civil servant with the Board of Trade.

They worked together during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
 on Utility Design, an austere and functional style. After the war they lived and farmed in a secluded part of Suffolk
Suffolk

Suffolk is a Non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south....
 for many years. Their union was childless.

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