MEYERSTEIN, EDWARD WILLIAM
- MEYERSTEIN, EDWARD WILLIAM
- MEYERSTEIN, EDWARD WILLIAM (1863–1942), British
philanthropist. Meyerstein was a highly successful member of the London
Stock Exchange, who was renowned as "the great benefactor of hospitals."
He had a very special interest in the Middlesex Hospital in London,
which received his gift of £350,000 to make possible its expansion.
Other institutions which were beneficiaries of his generosity were the
Queen Victoria College Hospital, Tonbridge, the Kent County Ophthalmic
Hospital at Maidstone, and the Westminster, St. Mary's, and Princess
Elizabeth of York hospitals in London. From 1937 to 1938 and from 1941
to 1942 he served as the high sheriff of Kent. He was knighted in 1938
for his benefactions to health services. His son, Edward Harry William
meyerstein , was a writer of prose and poetry.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
JC (Feb. 6, 1942), 18.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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