Jack Meyer (educator and cricketer)
educator and cricketer (1905-1991)
Rollo John Oliver Meyer (15 March 1905 – 9 March 1991) was an English educationalist and first-class cricketer who founded Millfield School in 1935 and Millfield Preparatory School in 1946.
An all-round sportsman, Meyer played first-class cricket in both England and India.
Early life
Born at Clophill, Bedfordshire, the second and surviving son of clergyman Revd Rollo Meyer (1868–1953) and Arabella Ward (1876–1960), the family moved to Watton-at-Stone, Hertfordshire in January 1911 when Rollo became the rector there, and Jack grew up in the village rectory overlooking the new cricket field. The teenage Jack played several cricket games for the village team. In 1923 a young Alan Turing stayed at the Meyer rectory home for the summer, the Turings being family friends. Jack was educated at Haileybury College, where he stood out as a cricketer.
Meyer was a forceful right-handed batsman and a right-arm bowler of medium pace picked out by the Wisden chronicler of public schools cricket of the time, H. S. Altham, for the amount of bowling work he got through, the maintenance of line and length in his varied bowling, and his flair for the "big" occasion. He went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge between 1923 and 1926, where he graduated with a double first in classics, before going to India to work as a cotton broker for 10 years.
The educator
Millfield
Meyer was accompanied on his return to England from India in the mid-1930s by seven young Indian aristocrats, including six princes, having been entrusted with providing them an education. He set up Millfield School in Street in Somerset in 1935 and remained as its headmaster for the next 35 years.
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