Meyer, Felix

Felix Henry Meyer (1858-1937), medical practitioner, was born on 19 June 1858 in Melbourne, son of Menk Meyer, businessman, and his wife Rebecca, née Fink. His Prussian-born father had come to Victoria in 1853. Felix received his first schooling from James Bonwick, then attended the St Kilda Collegiate Academy, the Flinders National Grammar School at Geelong, and finally Wesley College where he was dux in 1875. He won the Draper Scholarship and a number of special prizes while at Wesley. Retaining a lifelong affection for Wesley, Meyer was president of the Old Collegians in 1897-98 and in 1932 published a biography of its famed headmaster, L. A. Adamson.

from the Australian Dictionary of Biography