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Jack Catchpool

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(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]

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Early life

He attended the Quaker institutions Sidcot School and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre.[2]

Career

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]

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Personal life

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]

Publications

  • Candles in the Darkness. London: Bannisdale Press, 1966

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