| Variations of Name | Maurice Benington Reckitt |
| Biography | Maurice Benington Reckitt 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.
Reckitt was born on 19 May 1888 in Beverley, Yorkshire, to Arthur Benington Reckitt and Helen Annie Thomas. He graduated from St John's College, Oxford, in 1907 with second-class honours in history. At Oxford, and elsewhere throughout his life, he studied under Sir Ernest Barker, H. A. L. Fisher, G. K. Chesterton, A. R. Orage, Neville Figgis, P. E. T. Widdrington, and V. A. Demant.
Earlier in his life, he was a supporter of guild socialism and a founder of the National Guilds League. He presented the Scott Holland Memorial Lectures in 1946.
Reckitt was a leading player and croquet administrator winning the Men's Championship twice (1935 and 1946). Reckitt was on the Council of the Croquet Association between 1929 and 1975, serving as Chairman (1937 to 1939), Vice President (1962 to 1967) and President (1967 to 1975). |