Jack Meyer

Rollo John Oliver Meyer (15 March 1905 – 9 March 1991) was an English educationalist who founded Millfield School in 1935 and Millfield Preparatory School in 1946. 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. Early life Meyer was born the son of clergyman Rev Rollo Meyer in Clophill, Bedfordshire. 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's rectory home for the summer, the Turings being family friends. Jack was educated at Haileybury College, where he stood out as a cricketer. He 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 Pembroke College, Cambridge between 1923 and 1926, gaining a double first in classics, and then went to India to work as a cotton broker for 10 years. The educator