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unusual facts about Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick, 3rd Baronet


Hinton Admiral railway station

The station shares its name with Hinton Admiral house, the residence of Sir George Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick who owned the land that the station was built on.


Digby Mackworth Dolben

His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.

John Meyrick

After university, Meyrick became resident land agent on the Earl of Coventry's Croome Estate in Worcestershire.

Promalactis

Meyrick reported that larvae fed on rotten wood or bark of Pinaceae and other trees.

Qadbak Investments

German automotive conglomerate BMW were advised during the planning phases of Qadbak's takeover by leading British investment bank Rothschild, whose managing director Meyrick Cox had stated that Qadbak was "a wholly reputable organisation".

Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery

He was the only surviving son of John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery and his first wife Margaret Meyrick, daughter of Sir Gilly Meyrick.

Tapps-Gervis-Meyrick baronets

He assumed in 1876 by Royal license the additional surname of Meyrick according to the will of Owen Fuller Meyrick, a relative on his mother's side, from whom he inherited the Bodorgan estate on the Isle of Anglesey.


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