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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.〔John Shepherd, ''George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour'' (2004), p. 146〕 He was held in the guard room at Hounslow Barracks as a conscientious objector in World War I. Meynell was also a socialist who supported the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.〔Katharine Bail Hoskins, ''Today the Struggle: Literature and Politics in England during the Spanish Civil War''. University of Texas Press, 1969 (p.18) (p. 18)〕 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'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Meynell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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