About Henriette Marie Meyer
Lived 1872 – 1963 (aged 90–91). Henriette Marie Meyer was a Canadian philanthropist.
Henriette Marie Meyer, Lady Davis, CBE (1872–1963) was a Jewish-Canadian philanthropist. She was known as Lady Davis after her husband, Sir Mortimer Davis, was knighted in 1917.
Life
Meyer was born in San Francisco, the daughter of Charles Meyer, a banker and philanthropist.
After the end of the war, she established the Lady Davis Foundation, which helped bring survivors of the Holocaust to Canada. Lady Davis School in north Tel Aviv Lady Davis Fellows are scholars supported by her foundation.
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Who was Henriette Marie Meyer?
Canadian philanthropist
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Henriette Marie Meyer was born in 1872 in San Francisco.
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Henriette Marie Meyer died in 1963.
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Henriette Marie Meyer was a philanthropist.
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Henriette Marie Meyer was Canadian.
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