Meyer, John Stirling, brother of Edward Stirling Meyer (qv); b. 24 Feb. 1924; adm. Sept. 1937 (B); left July 1940 and went to Kent Sch., CT, USA; Trin. Coll. Hartford, CT, USA, BSc 1944; McGill Univ. PQ, Canada, MD CM 1948, MSc 1949; Lieut. Med. Corps USN 1953-5, Korea Presidential Citation, UN medal with three battle stars; Prof. & Chmn. of Neurology, Wayne State Sch. Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA 1957-69; chmn., Stroke Panel, President’s Commn. on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke 1962-4; Prof. and chmn. Baylor Coll. of Medicine Houston, TX, USA 1969-75, Prof. of Neurology 1976-; Clinical Prof. of Psychology Univ. of Houston, TX, USA 1978-; m. 1st, 20 June 1947 Muriel Storey, d. of Henry Carvill Haskell, chmn. Brunswick Worsted Mills, of Moosup, CT, USA; 2nd, Sept. 1987 Katharine, d. of Philip Sumner of Brunswick, ME, USA; d. 17 Feb. 2011.
Meyer, Harold Albert, brother of Edward Arthur Meyer (q.v.); b. June 23, 1898; adm. as K.S. Sept. 26, 1912; Mure Scholar 1915; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1917; matric. Michaelmas 1919; B.A. 1921; modern languages shortened honours course 1922, distinction; ran in relays race against Camb. 1921; athletics blue (100 yards) in 1922; served in Great War I, June 1917 - Sept. 1919; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. South Lancs. Regt. Sept. 26, 1917; Lieut. 1918; Stock Exchange 1924; ran in the winning Achilles Relay Team A.A.A. Championships, 1925; member of Stock Exchange 1930-9; Gov. Service, Postal Censorships, 1939-45; Principal successively in the Admiralty 1945; and the Ministry of Civil Aviation 1947-52; joined Rediffusion Ltd. as an executive 1952; novelist, translator, and broadcaster under the pseudonym of Hugh Merrick; m. Oct. 6, 1926, Katherine Myfanwy, daughter of the Rev. Henry Williams Jenkins, Rector of Llanfechell, Anglesey; d. 23 July 1980.
MEYER, GEORGE CHARLES, son of Jeremiah Meyer RA, Tavistock Row, Covent Garden, London, miniature painter, and Barbara Marsden, St. John the Evangelist, Westminster; b. 27 Jan 1767; adm. 30 Jun 1778; KS 1781; Writer, EICS Bengal 1783; arrived in India 7 Aug 1783; Assistant to Preparer of Reports, Revenue Dept. 1785-7; Preparer of Reports and Superintendent of Opium Manufacture from 1789; Superintendent of Police from 12 Oct 1791; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; committed suicide at Calcutta 12 Feb 1793 (see Hickey, Memoirs, iv, 78-80).
Meyer, Edward Stirling, son of William Charles Bernhard Meyer MD FRCS and Alice Elizabeth Stirling, writer, d. of Col. Alexander Surlmg, Black Watch, of Perth; b. 8 Dec. 1920; adm. Sept. 1933 (KS); Capt. of the school 1938-9; left July 1939; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1939; Black Watch 1941-4 (Capt.), wounded, despatches (Middle East) Jan. 1944; killed in action (NW Europe) 1944.
Edward Stirling Meyer was born at Marylebone, London on the 8th of December 1920 the elder son of Dr William Charles Bernard Meyer BA MB Ch.B FRCS, a surgeon, and Alice Elizabeth (nee Stirling) Meyer MA, a writer, of 215, North End Road, West Kensington in London. He was educated at the Froebel Institute, Westminster and at Westminster School where he was admitted as a King’s Scholar from September 1933 to July 1939. He was awarded the Science VI Form Prize in 1936. He was a member of the Cricket XI in 1938 and 1939 and was a member of the Rowing VIII in 1939. He was a member of the Eton Fives team from 1937 and was a member of the First Pair in 1938 and 1939 and served on the Committee of the Debating Society in 1938. He was elected as Captain of Gym in 1938 and was a member of the Squash team in the same year. He was a member of the Officer Training Corps and was promoted to Lance Corporal in September 1937. He was Captain of School from 1938 to 1939. He won the Westminster Scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford and matriculated in 1939. He did not complete his degree as he left the College for military service.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) on the 12th of March 1941 and was promoted to temporary Captain on the 13th of January 1944. He was wounded in the Middle East in 1943 and was Mentioned in Despatches for: -“Gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East”, which was announced by the War Office on the 13th of January 1944.
At 8am on the morning of the 10th of June 1944, the 7th Battalion, Black Watch arrived off the Normandy beaches at Courseulles-sur-Mer and began unloading at 6am the following morning. On the 20th of June 1944, the Battalion relieved the 3rd/7th Gordon Highlanders at the Bois de Bavent. They occupied the positions in the thick woodland where they were under sniper fire and they came under shell fire during the afternoon. The following day enemy patrols probed their positions and they were subjected to further shelling. On the 22nd of June, they came under heavy shell and mortar fire throughout the day and suffered casualties of two men killed and six wounded. On the 23rd of June, B Company was approached by an enemy tank which was repelled and later, the Regimental Aid Post received a direct hit from an enemy shell which killed three men. That afternoon Edward Meyer lead a patrol out towards the German lines to a position known as “Timber Post”, to the east of the Battalion’s positions, where he heard an enemy working party, but did not engage them before returning to the woods.
On the 26th of June 1944, the Battalion was relieved by the 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was to move to Escoville. At noon, during the relief, heavy shelling and mortar fire fell on their positions and Edward Meyer was killed by the explosion of a mortar shell. Two other men were killed and four more were wounded.
The Westminster School magazine, The Elizabethan, wrote of him: - “He was a boy of all-round ability, and conspicuous among his qualities was the indomitable courage and determination by which he triumphed over an almost excessive natural shyness and over disappointments resulting from ailments and accidents. He was training for the medical profession, but threw it up to join the fighting services.”
He is buried at La Delivrande War Cemetery Plot V, Row A, Grave 6.
Meyer, Edward Arthur, son of Arthur Meyer, of Hampstead, by Maude Beatrice, daughter of Hilary Albert, of London; b. Dec. 18, 1892; adm. as K.S. Sept. 27, 1906; left July 1911; Trin. Coll. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1911; enlisted in the Royal Warwicks Regt. in Great War I.
MEYER, CHRISTOPHER; b.; at school under Markham (Hickey, Memoirs, iii, 245, recording his presence at an OWW dinner held at Calcutta in 1783); m. 1st, 19 Aug 1782 Maria Weimer; m. 2nd, 24 Apr 1784 Pamela Williams]. [Was this “Captn. Meyer”, brother of George Charles Meyer (qv), an Army officer who had served in India, who d. at Salisbury 12 Jan 1795, having sold his commission the day before his death (Farrington Diary II, 291, entry for 12 Jan 1795) : but if so he would presumably have been at school under Smith, rather than under Markham]
MEUX, THOMAS, son of Thomas Meux, Littleton, Middlesex, and Elizabeth, only dau. of Sir William Massingberd, Bart. MP, Gunby, Lincs.; b.; at Merchant Taylors’ Sch. 1716-9; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1722/3; in school list Feb 1727/8; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Apr 1728, aged 17; BCL 1735; ordained deacon Sep 1735, priest Jun 1736 (both Oxford); of Fritwell, Oxfordshire; d. unm. (will proved PCC 7 Dec 1741).
Mettler, Leo Humphrys, son of J. A. Mettler, of Chelsea, London; b. Jan. 26, 1892; adm. Sept. 28, 1905 (H); left Easter 1909; served in Great War I; 2nd Lieut. 17th Batt. Royal Fusiliers Nov. 28, 1917; Lieut. Pioneer Corps Nov. 19, 1939; Capt.; resigned for ill health and was granted rank of Major April 17, 1942; d. Jan. 1949.