 Sir Meyer was one of the three surviving sons of the eight children of banker Adam Spielmann (1812-1869), who had emigrated from Schokken (now Skoki), near Posen (now Poznan) with his own two brothers.Eva was therefore the niece of the civil engineer turned art-connoisseur Sir Isidore Spielmann (1854-1925) as well as the renowned art-critic Marion Spielmann (1856-1936) and his wife, the children's author Mabel Spielmann (1862-1938).Through them she was related to the great dynasties of Montagu/Samuel and of Sebag-Montefiore.