Sir Henry Frederick Ross Catherwood (30 January 1925 – 30 November 2014) was a British politician and writer.

Early life and education

Catherwood was born at

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. He was educated at

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and

Clare College, Cambridge Clare College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college was founded in 1326 as University Hall, making it the second-oldest surviving college of the Unive ...

Career

He was former Director General of the

National Economic Development Council The National Economic Development Council (NEDC) was an economic planning forum set up in 1962 in the United Kingdom to bring together management, trades unions and government – a form of tripartism – in an attempt to address Britain's relativ ...

, Chief industrial Adviser at the Department of Economic Affairs (1964–66), President of the

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and President of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) He was knighted in 1971. From 1972 to 1976 he was Chairman of the Institute of Management and Chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board (1975–79). Catherwood was committed to economic co-operation within the European community for much of his professional life. He was elected as a

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member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

for Cambridgeshire and related areas from 1979 until his retirement in 1994. He was Vice President of the

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1989–1992.

Personal life

He married Elizabeth, the daughter of Christian pastor and author

Martyn Lloyd-Jones David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (20 December 1899 – 1 March 1981) was a Welsh Congregationalist 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 ...

. The Catherwoods had two sons and a daughter. Their son

Christopher Catherwood 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 ...

is an author. Their daughter, Bethan Marshall, is a university lecturer, and younger son Jonathan is Director of the Martyn Lloyd Jones Trust. Sir Fred Catherwood died in Cambridge, England on 30 November 2014 at the age of 89.

Bibliography

Catherwood authored many books and hundreds of articles in a range of journals. He described the requirements of responsible management and good industrial relations. His books include: *The Christian in Industrial Society, 1964, rev. edn 1980 (On the Job, USA, 1983); *Britain with the Brakes Off, 1966; *The Christian Citizen, 1969; *A Better Way, 1976; *First Things First, 1979; *God's Time God's Money, 1987; *Pro Europe?, 1991; *David: Poet, Warrior, King, 1993; *At the Cutting Edge (memoirs), 1995; *Jobs & Justice, Homes & Hope, 1997; *It Can be Done, 2000; *The Creation of Wealth: Recovering a Christian Understanding of Money, Work, and Ethics, 2002

Obituaries and tributes

* The Guardia
obituary
written by Stephen Bates. * The Time
obituary
* Fulcru
tribute
written by Elaine Storkey * IFESworl
tribute
, written by Penny Vinden.

References

*Who's Who 2009
Crossway

External links

The Papers of Sir Frederick Catherwood
held at

Churchill Archives Centre The Churchill Archives Centre (CAC) at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge is one of the largest repositories in the United Kingdom for the preservation and study of modern personal papers. It is best known for housing the papers ...

, Cambridge {{DEFAULTSORT:Catherwood, Fred 1925 births 2014 deaths People educated at Shrewsbury School Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge People from Castledawson Conservative Party (UK) MEPs Knights Bachelor Accountants from Northern Ireland MEPs for England 1979–1984 MEPs for England 1984–1989 MEPs for England 1989–1994 Politicians from County Londonderry Writers from County Londonderry