Edward William Meyerstein
Edward William Meyerstein (17 October 1863 – 1 February 1942) was a British merchant, stockbroker and philanthropist notable for donations to the Middlesex Hospital in Fitzrovia, London.[1]
Biography[edit]
He was the son of William and Henrietta Meyerstein, German Jews who had emigrated around the middle of the 19th century. He was educated at University College School in Hampstead, London.[1]
In 1886, he married Jessy Louise Solomon and they had one son, Edward Harry William Meyerstein who became a poet.
He lived in Sevenoaks, Kent, and was High Sheriff of Kent from 1937–38 and 1941–42.[1]
He gave £250,000 in the 1930s to the Middlesex Hospital in London to establish Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy formed in 1936.[2] The building was opened by Sir William Bragg then president of the Royal Society.
He died in London.[1]