Background
Hannah Violet Myers was born on 11 May 1875 in Birmingham, the oldest daughter of George Myers (b1841) and Flora Wertheimer (1851-1921) granddaughter of Chief Rabbi Akiba Wertheimer and niece of German philosopher Constantin Brunner.
Hannah Violet Myers was born on 11 May 1875 in Birmingham, the oldest daughter of George Myers (b1841) and Flora Wertheimer (1851-1921) granddaughter of Chief Rabbi Akiba Wertheimer and niece of German philosopher Constantin Brunner.
Myers went to King Edward"s School, Birmingham, and Edgbaston High School, and then in 1893 to Girton College, Cambridge where she read Mediaeval and Modern Languages, matriculating in 1896 and receiving an Master of Arts in 1928.
She performed classical concerts around the United Kingdom during the early 20th century and was described as "possessed of a beautiful soprano voice". She had four children: Walter (1907-1943), Peter (1909-1972), Flora (1911-1929), and Oliver (1914-1997). After her husband"s retirement in about 1935 they lived in Malvern, Worcestershire, where from 1937 until her death on 15 September 1943, aged 68, she was Secretary of Malvern Branch of the National Council of Women, and Secretary of the Refugee Committee from 1939.