Christopher Catherwood
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Christopher Catherwood is a British author internationally based in Cambridge, England and Richmond, Virginia. He has taught for the Institute of Continuing Education in Cambridge and has taught for many years now 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 their annual summer Writer in Residence, where most of his recent books have been written.
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[edit] History
He was educated at Westminster School, Balliol College, Oxford and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and since 1994 has been linked to St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He has degrees from Oxford and Cambridge universities, and the University of East Anglia.
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.
He currently teaches students from Tulane, Villanova and other American universities in the Cambridge-based INSTEP program, teaching 20th Century history and also church history.
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.
[edit] 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, daughter of the late Reverand John S. Moore, for many years the editor of the Virginia Baptist Historical Register. He and Paulette are members of the historic Cambridge city center church, St Andrew the Great.
[edit] Selected works
- Five Evangelical Leaders (Hodder and Stoughton in the UK and for Harold Shaw in the USA)
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones A Family Portrait (Kingsway in the UK and Baker Book House in the USA, 1995)
- Why the Nations Rage (Hodder and Stoughton in the UK in 1997 and a new academic edition with Rowman & Littlefield in the USA in 2002)
- A Crash Course in Church History (Hodder and Stoughton in the UK 1997 and new edition in the USA with Crossway 2007)
- Five Leading Reformers (CFP 2000)
- The Balkans in World War II (Palgrave 2003)
- Christians, Muslims, and Islamic Rage (Zondervan 2003)
- Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Iraq (Carroll and Graf, in the USA 2004: called Winston's Folly with Constable in the UK in 2004)
- A Brief History of the Middle East (Carroll and Graf in the USA and Constable in the UK, 2006)