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Wilfrid Meynell (17 November 1852, Newcastle-upon-Tyne – 20 October 1948, Pulborough〔Obituary, ''The Times'', 22 October 1948〕), who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym John Oldcastle, was a British newspaper publisher and editor. Born of an old Yorkshire family on his father's side, he was related to a family of distinguished Quakers on his mother's side: his grandfather was Samuel Tuke, and James Hack Tuke and Daniel Hack Tuke were uncles. In 1870, aged 18, Meynell became a convert to Roman Catholicism. He married the writer Alice Thompson in 1877.The pair's first effort at periodical publishing was ''The Pen'', a short-lived critical monthly review. In 1881 he accepted Cardinal Manning's invitation to edit the Catholic ''Weekly Register'', and continued to do so until 1899. Meynell later founded and edited (1883–94) the magazine ''Merry England'', in which he discovered and sponsored the poet Francis Thompson. Meynell wrote biographies of Manning, John Henry Newman and Pope Leo XIII. He contributed to a wide range of periodicals including the ''Contemporary Review'', ''The Art Journal'', ''The Magazine of Art'', the ''Athenaeum'', the ''Academy'', the ''Saturday Review'', the ''Pall Mall Budget'', the ''Illustrated London News'', the ''Daily Chronicle'' and the Nineteenth Century.〔''Men and women of the time'', 15th ed., 1899. ''The Catholic who's who and year book'', 1910.〕 During March 1906, ''The Windsor Magazine'' published an article entitled ''Politics - Second Series'' that was coauthored by Meynell and Bertram Fletcher Robinson.〔(BFRonline.BIZ - A list of Bertram Fletcher Robinson publications & republications )〕 This article was recently republished in a book entitled ''The World of Vanity Fair'' that was edited by Paul Spiring.〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1904312535〕 By the 1920s, Meynell principally wrote for the ''Dublin Review'' and ''The Tablet''.〔 Wilfrid and Alice Meynell had nine children, including the founder of The Nonesuch Press, Francis Meynell. After his wife's death in 1922, Wilfred Meynell lived out the last 25 years of his life mainly at Humphrey's Homestead, Greatham, near Pulborough in West Sussex. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilfrid Meynell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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