The son of Hugo Meynell and brother of Hugo Charles Meynell Ingram; educated at Harrow (where he was a contemporary of Byron), he was a navy captain and Conservative MP for Lisburn (1826-47).

REFERENCES TO Henry Meynell:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 March 1831 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)