Name Christopher Catherwood Role Author | Grandparents Martyn Lloyd-Jones | |
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Parents Fred Catherwood, Elizabeth Lloyd-Jones Education Westminster School, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Balliol College Great-grandparents Magdalen Evans, Henry Lloyd-Jones Books A Brief History of the Middl, Churchill's Folly: How Winston, Merchants of Fear: Why They, Church History: A Crash Co, Martyn Lloyd Jones Similar People Fred Catherwood, Martyn Lloyd‑Jones, Winston Churchill | ||
Winston Churchill's Worst Mistake That We Are Still Paying For (2004)
Christopher Catherwood (born 1 March 1955) is a British author based in Cambridge, England and, often, in Richmond, Virginia. He has taught for the Institute of Continuing Education based a few miles away in Madingley and has taught for many years for the School of Continuing Education at the University of Richmond. He has been associated each summer with the University of Richmond's History Department, where he is its annual summer Writer in Residence, and where most of his recent books have been written.
Contents
- Winston Churchills Worst Mistake That We Are Still Paying For 2004
- History
- Family background
- Selected works
- References
History
He is the son of Sir Fred Catherwood. He was educated at Westminster School, Balliol College, Oxford, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of East Anglia. Since 1994 has been linked to St Edmund's College, Cambridge.
In 2001, he was a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Virginia's Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, and in 2002 was briefly a consultant to the British Cabinet Office's former Strategic Futures Team of their Performance and Innovation Unit.
In 2002, he was a consultant to the Strategic Futures Team of British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
He has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. For his religious and historical non-fiction work he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2005.
In December 2008, he appeared as a cameo character in the online novel Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith, who wrote a positive review of his book on Churchill's creation of Iraq in The New York Times.
In 2008, he was a Crosby Kemper Memorial Lecturer at the Churchill Memorial and Library, Westminster College in Fulton, MO.
In 2009, he was a Marshall Lecturer at the George C. Marshall Center at the Virginia Military Institute. In the same year he was also an Osher Lecturer at the University of Richmond, VA.
In 2010, he was a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Traveling Fellow (at the Evelyn Waugh Archives at the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, at the Fitzroy Maclean Archives at the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, and at the OSS Archives at the National Archives in College Park MD).
In 2010, he again appeared as a cameo character in a second Alexander McCall Smith novel, The Dog Who Came in From The Cold.
He currently teaches students from Connecticut College, Tulane, Villanova, Wake Forest and other American universities in the Cambridge-based INSTEP program, teaching 20th century history and also church history. He is a Key Supervisor for the JYA Programme at Homerton College, Cambridge. and is an SCR Associate of Churchill College, Cambridge, at which college he was the Archives By-Fellow for Lent Term 2008 for his work on Winston Churchill and the Second World War.
Family background
Christopher Catherwood is the son of Sir Frederick Catherwood (former Vice-President of the European Parliament), and maternal grandson of the preacher Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. He is married to Paulette; a piano teacher, daughter of the late Reverend John S. Moore, for many years the editor of the Virginia Baptist Historical Register. He and Paulette are members of the evangelical Cambridge city centre Anglican church, St Andrew the Great.