SECOND SPRING OXFORD - Key Persons

Stratford Caldecott, MA (Oxon.), STD, FRSA, was an author, publisher, and editor. He was educated at Dulwich College and Hertford College, Oxford. He worked for many years as a Senior Editor at Routledge, HarperCollins, and T&T Clark, and served on the editorial boards of Communio, The Chesterton Review, Oasis, and the Catholic Truth Society in London. After founding the Centre for Faith & Culture, he organised and spoke frequently at conferences, taught at a number of colleges and universities, and wrote and published widely on Christian apologetics, theology, and cultural themes. His writing was published in books, magazines, and newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Touchstone, This Rock, Parabola, Columbia magazine, StAR, and the National Catholic Register. In his final years he was appointed G.K. Chesterton Fellow at St Benet's Hall, Oxford, and worked with his wife Léonie as the editor of Magnificat, Second Spring journal, and Humanum, the online review of the John Paul II Institute in Washington DC, of which he was the founding editor. In 2013 the Institute awarded him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his work for the Church. Stratford passed away after a battle with cancer on 17 July 2014.