Christopher Catherwood, (born 1 March 1955) is a British author based in

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, England and, often, in

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, Virginia. He has taught for the

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based a few miles away in

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and has taught for many years for the School of Continuing Education at the

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. 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.

History

He is the son of Sir Fred Catherwood. He was educated at

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Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. One of Oxford's oldest colleges, it was founded around 1263 by John I de Balliol, a landowner from Barnard Castle in County Durham, who provided the ...

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), wif ...

, and the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

where he obtained a PhD degree by publication. Since 1994 he has been linked to

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. In 2001, he was a Rockefeller Fellow at the

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'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

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. He has been a

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(FRGS) and a

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(FRAS). For his religious and historical non-fiction work he was elected a

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(FRHistS) in 2005. In December 2008, he appeared as a cameo character in the online novel '' Corduroy Mansions'' by

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, 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 la, Consilio et Animis (on seal) , mottoeng = "In peace a glorious asset, In war a tower of strength""By courage and wisdom" (on seal) , established = , type = Public senior military college , accreditation = SACS , endowment = $696.8 mill ...

. In the same year he was also an Osher Lecturer at the

, 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

, 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

novel, ''

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''. He currently teaches students from

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, 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

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, 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

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), and maternal grandson of the preacher Dr. D.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899–1981) was a Welsh Protestant minister and medical doctor who was influential in the Calvinist wing of the British evangelical movement in the 20th century. For almost 30 years, he was the minister of Westminste ...

. He was married to Paulette; a piano teacher, daughter of the late Reverend John S. Moore, for many years the editor of the Virginia

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Historical Register. He and Paulette are members of the

evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being " born again", in which an individual expe ...

Cambridge city centre Anglican church,

St Andrew the Great St Andrew the Great is a Church of England parish church in central Cambridge. Rebuilt in late Gothic style in 1843, it is a Grade II listed building. The church has a conservative evangelical tradition and participates in the Anglican Reform mov ...

Selected works

*''Five Evangelical Leaders'' (

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in the UK and for Harold Shaw in the US) *''Martyn Lloyd-Jones A Family Portrait'' ( Kingsway in the UK and Baker Book House in the US, 1995) *''Why the Nations Rage'' (Hodder and Stoughton in the UK in 1997 and a new academic edition with Rowman & Littlefield in the US in 2002) *''A Crash Course in Church History'' (Hodder and Stoughton in the UK 1997 and new edition in the US with Crossway 2007) *''Five Leading Reformers'' (CFP 2000) *''The Balkans in

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'' (Palgrave 2003) *''Christians,

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s, and Islamic Rage'' (

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2003) *''Churchill's Folly: How

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...

Created

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

'' (Carroll and Graf, in the USA 2004: called ''Winston's Folly'' with Constable in the UK in 2004)For the most significant reviews of one of the editions (now out of print – the one still in print is the paperback, see the Barnes and Noble website review of its own edition: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Churchills-Folly/Christopher-Catherwood/e/9780760792681/?itm=18 *''A Brief History of the Middle East'' (Carroll and Graf in the US and Constable in the UK, 2006) *''A God Divided'' (Victor, 2007) *"''Making War in the Name of God''" (Citadel Press, 2007) *''Winston Churchill: The Flawed Genius of World War II'' (Penguin, New York, 2009) *''His Finest Hour: A Biography of Winston Churchill'' (Skyhorse Publishing, New York, 2010; published in the UK by Constable and Robinson, London as ''His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill'' *''The Evangelicals'' (Crossway Books, Wheaton IL, 2010) *"The Second World War: A Beginner's Guide" (Oneworld Publications, 2014) *''Martyn Lloyd-Jones: His Life and Relevance for the 21st Century.'' (Crossway Books, Wheaton IL, 2015) *''Churchill and Tito: SOE, Bletchley Park and Supporting the Yugoslav Communists in World War II'' (Frontline Books. 2017)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Catherwood, Christopher 1955 births Living people Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Alumni of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of East Anglia English historians Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society Fellows of the Royal Historical Society People educated at Westminster School, London People from Cambridge Academics of the Institute of Continuing Education