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] He was the son of William and Henrietta Meyerstein, German Jews who had emigrated around the middle of the 19th century.
[1] In 1886, he married Jessy Louise Solomon and they had one son, Edward Harry William Meyerstein who became a poet.
[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.