Edward William Meyerstein (17 October 1863 – 1 February 1942) was a British merchant, stockbroker and philanthropist notable for donations to the

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, London.''Meyerstein, Sir Edward William'', Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Oct 2012, accessed 18 April 2013
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Biography

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

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, London. In 1886, he married Jessy Louise Solomon and they had one son, Edward Harry William Meyerstein who became a poet. He lived in

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, and was High Sheriff of Kent from 1937–38 and 1941–42. He gave £250,000 in the 1930s to the

in London to establish Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy formed in 1936.British Medical Journal, 18 June 1938, p.1316 accessed 18 April 2013
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then president of the

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. He died in London.

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