Early Life
He was born the son of clergyman Rev Rollo Meyer in Clophill, Bedfordshire and was educated at Haileybury College, where he stood out as a cricketer.
Meyer was a forceful right-handed batsman and a right-arm bowler of medium pace picked out by the Wisden chronicler of public schools cricket of the time, H. S. Altham, for the amount of bowling work he got through, the maintenance of line and length in his varied bowling, and his flair for the "big" occasion. He was at Cambridge University between 1923 and 1926 and then went to India to work as a cotton broker for 10 years.
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