Jack Catchpool CBE | |
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Warden of Toynbee Hall | |
In office 1963–1964 | |
Preceded by | Arthur Eustace Morgan |
Succeeded by | Walter Birmingham |
Personal details | |
Born | Leicester,UK | 22 August 1890
Died | 13 March 1971 80) Welwyn Garden City,UK | (aged
Education | Sidcot School Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre |
(Egerton) St John Pettifor Catchpool CBE (1890-1971) also known as Jack Catchpool was a social worker who served as the warden of Toynbee Hall,London. He was general secretary of the Youth Hostels Association from its inception in 1930 until 1950. [1]
He attended the Quaker institutions Sidcot School and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre. [2]
During the First World War,Catchpool served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France and then with the Friends' war victims' relief committee in Russia. [2]
After the war,he held the post of sub-warden of Toynbee Hall from 1920 to 1929. He was a member of the London County Council education committee from 1925 to 1931. [2]
From 1930 to 1950 he served as the first general secretary of the Youth Hostels Association,and in 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation. [2] He was also the Chairman of the Romney Street Group from 935 to 1950. [3]
He married Ruth Allason in 1920 and they had five children. [1]
His older brother was Corder Catchpool. [4]
He was appointed chevalier of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau in 1948 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951.
He died at his home in Welwyn Garden City,Herfordshire,on 13 March 1971. [2]