Peter Caddy (20 March 1917 – 18 February 1994) was a British caterer, hotelier, and with his wife Eileen Caddy and their friend

Dorothy Maclean Dorothy Maclean (January 7, 1920 – March 12, 2020) was a Canadian writer and educator on spiritual subjects who was one of the original three adults at what is now the Findhorn Foundation in northeast Scotland. Biography Maclean was born in Gue ...

, co-founder of the

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community.

Life and work

Educated at Harrow, Caddy was apprenticed as a director with J. Lyons and Company, and was a member of the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship. On the outbreak of the

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he was commissioned as an officer with the Catering Branch of the

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, where he served from 1940 until 1955. From 1957 until 1961 he was manager of the Cluny Hill Hotel near

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, Scotland, now the training college of the

. During a period of unemployment from 1962 onwards, Caddy began experimenting with

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to supplement his family's food supply. The garden near Findhorn,

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, flourished to such a remarkable extent that it eventually attracted national attention. Peter Caddy attributed its success to his spiritual practices, and a community began to form around his family and their friend

. Much more information about the establishment and growth of the Findhorn Community is contained in Peter Caddy's autobiography. In 1979 Caddy left the Findhorn Ecovillage community he had helped to found. He died in a car crash in

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in 1994.

References

1917 births 1994 deaths People educated at Harrow School Royal Air Force officers Road incident deaths in Germany Findhorn community New Age spiritual leaders Organic gardeners Royal Air Force personnel of World War II {{RAF-bio-stub