Wilfrid Meynell CBE (17 November 1852, Newcastle-upon-Tyne – 20 October 1948, Pulborough),[1] who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym John Oldcastle, was a British newspaper publisher and editor.
Meynell later founded and edited (1883–94) the magazine Merry England, in which he discovered and sponsored the poet Francis Thompson.
[3] During March 1906, The Windsor Magazine published an article entitled Politics - Second Series, co-authored by Meynell and Bertram Fletcher Robinson.
[4] This article was recently republished in a book entitled The World of Vanity Fair, edited by Paul Spiring.
After his wife's death in 1922, Meynell lived out the last 25 years of his life mainly at Humphrey's Homestead, Greatham, near Pulborough in West Sussex.