John Meiklejohn

John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (; 11 July 1830 – 5 April 1902) was a Scottish academic, journalist and author known for writing school books.

Life Born in Edinburgh on 11 July 1830, he was son of John Meiklejohn, an Edinburgh schoolmaster, and was educated at his father's private school at 7 St. Anthony Place, Port Hopetoun. He graduated with an MA from the University of Edinburgh on 21 April 1858, when he was the gold medallist in Latin. At an early age he devoted himself to German philosophy, and became a private schoolmaster, first in Bowdon in 1858 and then in 1874 in Orme Square, London. He also lectured and took up journalism, in 1864 acting as a war correspondent in the Second Schleswig War, and being arrested as a spy.

22 December 1864 he married Jane Cussans (1841–1922), daughter of T. Cussans late HEIC, at St Luke's Church, Kings Cross. London. They had (at least) five sons and three daughters.

Among their sons were Maury Meiklejohn (1870–1913), who won the Victoria Cross during the Boer War, and Arnold Meiklejohn (1874–1932). The fifth son Lieutenant Hugh Bernard Meiklejohn, Royal Navy, died on 17 May 1902, aged 26.