Edward Meyrick. 1854-1938

Edward Meyrick was a very remarkable m an and exerted an influence both as a classical schoolmaster at Marlborough College and as a naturalist in the widest sense, and especially as an entomologist, far wider than he himself probably realized ; possibly also far wider than has been the case with many distinguished and better-known Fellows of the Royal Society. He came of a clerical stock, the Meyricks being natives of Wales, and it was his great-grandfather, the Rev. Edward Meyrick, a native of Caermarthenshire, who came from South Wales and set up a school at Hungerford and thus established the Wiltshire connexion of the Meyricks.