D'Arcy, Martin Cyril, 1888-1976
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1888-06-16 - 1976-11-20
Biographical Note
Martin Cyril D'Arcy was born in Bath, England in 1888. He attended Oxford University and the Pontifical Gregorian University and was ordained a priest in 1921. In 1927, he joined the faculty at Oxford and during this time received into the church a stream of famous converts, most notably Evelyn Waugh. Between 1945 and 1950 he served as provincial superior of the Jesuits in England. D'Arcy authored 20 books, mainly on philosophical and religious topics. He died in London at the age of 88 in 1976.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Philip Caraman, SJ papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-1998-030
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, clippings, and writings comprise the papers of British Jesuit Philip Caraman. The bulk of the collection is his personal and professional correspondence with other Jesuits, authors, and poets. Among the correspondents are: John Betjeman; Martin Cyril D'Arcy, SJ; John W. Gran; Graham Greene; Peter Levi; André Malraux; Norman Sherry; Edith Sitwell; Muriel Spark; Francis Sweeney, SJ; Catherine Walston; and Evelyn Waugh. Some of the writers are further
represented...
Restrictions on access
Collection is open for research.
Dates:
1944 - 1998