Francis Meynell

Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (12 May 1891 – 10 July 1975) was a British poet and printer at Nonesuch Press.

Life
Meynell was the son of journalist and publisher Wilfrid Meynell and 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. Meynell was also a socialist who supported the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. He was held in the guard room at Hounslow Barracks as a conscientious objector during World War I.

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.

Recognition
Meynell was knighted in 1946.