MEYER 



Meyer, FREDERICK HHOTIIKRTON 

 ( l>. I siT). licit i-h N<.ii<-'niformist 

 <li\iin> Horn in l.'.nilfii. April 8, 

 1847, he waa 

 educated at 

 Brighton Col- 

 lege and Lon- 

 don Univer- 

 s 1 1 v , and 

 studied for the 

 Baptist minis- 

 try at Re- 

 gent's Park 

 College. Af- 

 ter holding 

 in Liverpool and York 

 hi- liccame minister of Victoria 

 Kiiail Church, Leicester, in 1874, 

 where hia ministry was so suc- 

 f.-i>t'ul that a special building, 

 known as Melbourne Hall, was 

 erected for him in 1878. Minister 

 of Regent's Park Chapel, London, 

 1888-92, he succeeded C. Newman 

 Hall at Christ Church, Westmin- 

 ster Bridge Road, in the latter year. 

 In 1909 he returned to Regent's 

 Park Chapel, and held the pastorate 

 until 1915. when he returned to 

 Christ Church. He retired from the 

 active ministry in 1920. Leader of 

 various temperance, purity, and 

 social campaigns, he published 

 many Bible commentaries and The 

 Bells of Is, an autobiographical 

 work. See Life, M. J. Street, 1902. 

 Meyer, KUNO (1858-1919). Ger- 

 man Celtic scholar. Born at Ham 

 burg. Dec. 20, 1858, he was edu- 

 cated at Leipzig, and became lec- 

 turer in Teutonic languages at 

 Liverpool, 1884, was professor of 

 Celtic at Liverpool, 1895-1915, and 

 at Berlin from 1911. He specially 

 devoted himself to Irish, and 

 edited many early texts. The free- 

 dom of Dublin was conferred upon 

 him for his services to the Irish 

 nation and language. In England, 

 he made himself conspicuous by 

 his anti-British sentiments. He 

 died at Leipzig, Oct. 14, 1919. 



Meyer, LUKAS (1846-1902). 

 Boer soldier. A native of the 

 Orange Free State, he afterwards 

 settled in the 

 Transvaal and 

 in 1884 he 

 helped to 

 found the re- 

 public of Zulu- 

 land, of which 

 he became 

 president. 

 When this 

 state was 

 united with 

 the Transvaal, he was chosen a 

 member, and later president, of 

 the Volksraad. He held a com- 

 mand in the war of 1899-1902, 

 taking part in the siege of Lady- 

 smith. Meyer died at Brussels, 

 Aug. 8, 1902. 



M. Paul Meyer, 

 French scholar 



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Meyer, MARIE PAUL (b. 1840). 

 Fri-m-li Romance scholar. Born in 

 Paris, Jan. 17, 1840, he became 

 in 1870 pro- 

 fenor of the 

 languages and 

 literature of 

 southern 

 Europe in the 

 ( ' > 1 I c g e of 

 France, and in 

 1882 director 

 of the Paris 

 E c o 1 e d e s 

 C h a r t e s 

 (school of diplomatic and palaeo- 

 graphy). At first his studies were 

 limited to ancient Provencal litera- 

 ture, but soon extended to all the 

 Romance languages. With Gaston 

 Paris (q.v.) he founded the journal 

 Romania, devoted to the interests 

 of Romance philology, and edited 

 many old French texts. 



Meyer, VICTOR (1848-1897). 

 German chemist. Born in Berlin, 

 Sept. 8, 1848, and educated at 

 Berlin and Heidelberg, he became 

 professor of chemistry at the 

 Zurich Polytechnic, 1872, and suc- 

 ceeded Bunsen in the chair of 

 chemistry at Heidelberg, 1889 He 

 introduced new methods of deter- 

 mining the vapour densities of sub- 

 stances vaporising at high tem- 

 peratures, and discovered the 

 chemical bodies known as aldox- 

 imes and ketoximes. While inves- 

 tigating the impurities in benzol 

 he discovered thiophen and after- 

 wards produced its derivatives. He 

 died at Heidelberg, Aug. 8, 1897. 



Meyerbeer, JAKOB (1791- 

 1864). German composer. Born in 

 Berlin, Sept. 5, 1791, the son of a 

 Jewish banker, 

 Herz Beer, his 

 name was 

 originally 

 Jakob Lieb- 

 mann Beer. 

 As a child he 

 played the 

 piano in public 

 in Berlin, and 

 after studying 

 there con- 

 tinued his work with Abt Vogler 

 at Darmstadt, where he lived for 

 two years. His powers improved 

 until he became one of the most 

 brilliant pianists of the day, but his 

 mind had already turned in the 

 direction of composition. 



He began with an oratorio, and 

 in 1813 produced his first success, 

 the opera Alimelek. To develop his 

 talent he spent some years in Italy, 

 where a number of successful works 

 were written, and settled in Paris 

 in 1831. His works include the 

 opera?, Robert the Devil, The 

 Huguenots, and The Prophet. He 

 died, May 2, 1864. /Von. Myer-bare. 



Jakob Meyerbeer, 

 German composer 



_ MEYNELL 



Meynell. Famous English hunt. 

 It ImntH a district in Derbyshire 



mid SfafTonUhire. Sudbury w 

 about the centre, while Burton-on- 

 Trent, Tutbury, and Uttoxeter are 

 in the area. The hounds belong to 

 the mombera. The hunt began as a 

 private pack, own'-d t.v Hugo C. 

 Mi-vin-ll Ingram, and named from 

 I'-ii'-r, the Hoar Cross. He 

 hunted the country from 1816-67, 

 and in 1872 the pack ceased to be 

 private property. New kennels 

 were built at Sudbury, and the 

 pack took its present name. See 

 A History of the Mej-nell Hounds 

 and Country, 1780-1901, J. L. 

 Randall, 1901. Pron. MenneL 



Meynell, ALICE CHRISTIANA( 1850 

 -1922). British poet. Daughter 

 of T. J. Thompson, and sister of 

 Lady Butler, 

 the battle 

 painter, she 

 was educated 

 by her father, 

 often in Italy, 

 while Ruskin 

 nnd Henley en- 

 couraged her 

 literary am- 

 bitions. She 

 married Wil- 

 frid Meynell 

 (q.v.) in 1877. She wrote on John 

 Ruskin, 1900. selected the verses 

 of John B. Tabb, 1906, and em- 

 bodied the record of her finished 

 taste hi The Flower of the Mind, 

 a general anthology of English 

 verse, 1897, besides writing pre 

 faces and essays. Her own 

 poems, collected in 1913, appeared 

 under titles which carry their 

 own message, The Rhythm of Life, 

 1893; The Colour of Life, 1896. 

 The volume entitled Children of the 

 Old Masters, 1903, covers different 

 ground. The whole of Alice Mey- 

 nell's work reveals culture and 

 taste. She died Nov. 27, 1922. 



Meynell, WILFRID (b. 1852). 

 British author and journalist. He 

 was born in Yorkshire and edu- 

 cated in York. 

 He joined the 

 Roman Catho- 

 lic Church in 

 1870. Meynell's 

 1 !t>n jam in Dis- 

 raeli ; an Un- 

 conventional 

 Biog raphy, 

 1903, is extra- 

 ordinarily sug- 



Alice Meynell, 

 British poet 



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Wilfrid Meynell, 

 British author 



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gestive ; while 

 his Verses and 

 Reverses, 1912, give, perhaps, the 

 most intimate revelation of the 

 man himself. Journals and 

 Journalism, 1880, proclaimed an 

 ideal which he practised with 

 exceptional consistency. From 

 1881-99 Meynell used his position 



