Edward Ingram Watkin was an English writer. A convert to Catholicism

Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....

 in 1908, he founded in 1936 with Eric Gill

Eric Gill

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement...

 and Donald Attwater  the inter-war Catholic pacifist movement Pax. This movement was prominently supported by Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She was also considered to be an anarchist, and did not hesitate to use the term...

.

Life

He studied at St Paul's School, London and New College, Oxford

New College, Oxford

New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...

. He publicly opposed conscription

Conscription

Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and continues in some countries to the present day under various names...

 in 1916, a position he upheld in his 1939 pamphlet The Crime of Conscription.

Family

His maternal grandfather was Herbert Ingram

Herbert Ingram

Herbert Ingram was considered the father of pictorial journalism through his founding of The Illustrated London News. He was a Liberal politician who favoured social reform and represented Boston for four years until his early death in a shipping accident.-Early life:Ingram was born at Paddock...

; Edward Watkin

Edward Watkin

Sir Edward William Watkin, 1st Baronet was an English railway chairman and politician.- Biography :Watkin was born in Salford, Lancashire, the son of a wealthy cotton merchant, Absalom Watkin who was noted for his involvement in the Anti-corn Law League.After a private education, he returned to...

was a great-uncle on his father’s side.

Works

• Some Thoughts on Catholic Apologetics: A Plea for Interpretation (1915)
• A Little Book of Prayers for Peace (1916)
• The Philosophy of Mysticism (1920)
• The Bow in the Clouds: An Essay Towards the Integration of Experience (1931)
• A Philosophy of Form (1935)
• Theism, Agnosticism And Atheism (1936)
• Men and Tendencies (1937)
• The Crime of Conscription (1939)
• The Catholic Center (1939)
• Catholic Art and Culture (1942)
• Praise of Glory (1943)
• The Balance of Truth (1943)
• Poets and Mystics (1953)
• Neglected Saints (1955)
• Roman Catholicism in England from the Reformation to 1950 (1957)
• The Church in Council (1960)