George Catlin (political scientist)

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George Edward Gordon Catlin (1896-1979) was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-American cooperation, he would work for many years as a professor at Cornell University and other universities and colleges in the United States and Canada.

He was involved in the last months of WWI fighting on the Western Front.

He married English novelist Vera Brittain in 1925. Their daughter is well-known British politician Shirley Williams, now Baroness Williams of Crosby. They also had a son, John Brittain-Catlin, who died in 1987.

He wanted to keep anonymity in his wife's WWI autobiography (Testament of Youth) and she reluctantly altered its last chapter, in which he appeared, to accommodate these wishes. He opposed the re-publication of the book by Virago Press in the late 1970s (several years after the author had died), but relented and allowed it to be done.