Jack Meyer (educator and cricketer)
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| Full name | Rollo John Oliver Meyer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
15 March 1905 Clophill, Bedfordshire, England |
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| Died | 9 March 1991 (aged 85) Kingsdown, Bristol, England |
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| Nickname | Boss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling style | Right-arm slow-medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1936–1949 | Somerset | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1924–1926 | Cambridge University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1924–1929 | Minor Counties | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1926/7–1934/5 | Europeans (India) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1929–1950 | MCC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First-class debut | 10 May 1924 Cambridge University v Lancashire |
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| Last First-class | 22 July 1950 MCC v Minor Counties |
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| Source: CricketArchive, 26 November 2007 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rollo John Oliver Meyer (15 March 1905 – 9 March 1991), known generally as 'Jack', and at Millfield mainly as 'Boss', was an English educationalist who founded Millfield School (1935) and Millfield Preparatory School (1946) in Somerset; he was also an all-round sportsman who played cricket at first-class level in both England and in India. He died in Bristol on 9 March 1991.
He was born the son of clergyman Rev Rollo Meyer in Clophill, Bedfordshire and 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 was at Cambridge University between 1923 and 1926, gaining a double first in classics, and then went to India to work as a cotton broker for 10 years.
Meyer was son of the Reverend Horace Rollo Meyer and Arabella Crosbie Ward. He had a brother, Horace Frost Denys Meyer, and a sister, Constance Evelyn Meyer, married to Bertie Brabazon Ponsonby.
Meyer and his wife had two daughters, Jillian Rollo Dawn who later married Albert Paul Prestwich, and Jacqueline Valerie Faye Meyer who married Reginald Nicholas Mander (their son Julian, their grandson Gareth, and their great grandson Jack, all later attended Millfield).
Meyer was accompanied on his return to England from India in the mid 1930s by seven Indian boys, 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. He was known as The Boss at school. The new school theatre at Millfield is named after him.
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