Maurice Reckitt

Maurice Benington Reckitt (1888–1980) was a leading English Anglo-Catholic and Christian socialist writer. He edited "Christendom: A Journal of Christian Sociology" from 1931 to 1950. He founded the charity Christendom Trust.
Life.
Reckitt was born on 19 May 1888 in Beverley, Yorkshire, to Arthur Benington Reckitt and Helen Annie Thomas. His background was wealthy, with the family business Reckitt's of Hull manufacturing a well-known brand of bluing. His sister was Eva Collet Reckitt, founder of Collet's, the London bookshop. He graduated from St John's College, Oxford, in 1907 with second-class honours in history.