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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from Play 1883 to Election 1960, Volume 3, compiled by J.B. Whitmore, G.R.Y. Radcliffe and D.C. Simpson, Barnet, 1963