Hollis, Christopher, 1902-1977
Biographical Note
Maurice Christopher Hollis (1902-1977) was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He converted to Catholicism in 1924 and published his first book, Glastonbury and England, in 1927. From 1925-1935, he was assistant master at Stonyhurst College and from 1935-1939 he lectured and did research in the United States and Canada. Hollis was an economist, scholar, historian, biographer, lecturer, and journalist. He was a Conservative member of the British Parliament from 1945-1955 and served with the Royal Air Force in World War II. He served as a member of the editorial board of the London Tablet and published many works during his lifetime. His last book, Oxford in the Twenties: Recollections of Five Friends, was published a year before his death in 1977.
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Boston College collection of Christopher Hollis
This collection documents the life and work of Christopher Hollis, a twentieth-century British Catholic author, historian, and politician. It contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and typescripts for Hollis's theological work "The Mystery of Things."
Collection is open for research.
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