Rollo John Oliver (Jack) Meyer (15 March 1905 – 9 March 1991) founded Millfield School (1935) and was also an all-round sportsman who played cricket at first-class level in both England and in India. He died in Bristol on 9th March 1991.
The later stage of Meyer’s cricket career began after his return to England to set up Millfield School in Somerset. From the 1936 season, he played for Somerset, almost always those in the second half of the season when the school term had ended and, with rare exceptions, those played at home. In these games, he played as an all-rounder, his batting having improved significantly since his Cambridge days. Against Lancashire at Taunton in the last match of the 1936 season, he scored his maiden century, an undefeated 202, scored in 225 minutes. As a bowler, he managed at least one five-wicket innings haul in each of the four seasons running up to the Second World War.
After the war, Meyer resumed his prewar pattern of late summer home games in 1946, but then, in 1947, at the age of 42, allowed himself his solitary season of full-time cricket as Somerset’s captain, the season was not a success for Somerset, and he stood down at the end of the year.
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