Maurice Reckitt
Male, Deceased Person
1888 – 1980
Who was Maurice Reckitt?
Maurice Benington Reckitt was a leading British Anglo-Catholic and Christian Socialist writer. He edited Christendom, A Journal of Christian Sociology from 1931 to 1950.
Earlier he was a supporter of guild socialism and a founder of the National Guilds League. He presented the Scott Holland Memorial Lectures in 1946.
An heir to the Reckitt family fortune, his sister was Eva Collett Reckitt, founder of the left-wing London bookshop Collett's.
Reckitt was a leading player and croquet administrator winning the Men's Championship twice. Reckitt was on the Council of the Croquet Association between 1929 and 1975, serving as Chairman, Vice President and President.
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