George Catlin (political scientist)

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Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (1896-1979) was an English political scientist and philosopher. A strong proponent of Anglo-America cooperation, he worked for many years as a professor at Cornell University and other universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. McMaster University Libraries hold his correspondence archive and the body of some of his works.

Catlin was involved in the last months of World War I, fighting on the Western Front. He married English novelist Vera Brittain in 1925. They had two offspring, John Catlin (1927-1987), whose memoirs, Family Quartet, appeared in 1987, and well-known British politician Shirley Williams.

Catlin was an unsuccessful Labour Party candidate in two general elections: 1931 in Brentford and Chiswick, and 1935 in Sunderland. From 1935 to 1937 he was on the executive committee of the Fabian Society. He was a founder of the Movement for Atlantic Union, which was established in 1958. He drafted the constitution of the Paris Atlantic Institute, founded in 1961.^[1] He was also a member of the Pilgrims Club of Great Britain.