Cyril Charlie Martindale
(1879-1963), Jesuit, scholar and writerSitter in 1 portrait
by Lafayette
whole-plate film negative, 28 January 1927
NPG x69313
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John G. Hissong
30 May 2016, 06:04
Fr. C.C. Martindale, SJ was a Catholic priest, writer and a theologian, and, along with Fr. Martin D'Arcy, SJ, one of the dominant Jesuit intellectuals of the English Catholic Church in the first half of 20th Century. Martindale was born in 1879 and raised in the English Church, but converted to Catholicism on 8 May 1897. He joined the Jesuit order which sent him to Oxford in 1901. Despite a less than robust constitution for most of his life, he was a prolific writer of articles, religious pamphlets, the lives of various saints and many other works. His biography of his fellow convert, priest, and author, Fr. Robert Hugh Benson, is particularly notable. He had a particular interest in ministering to sailors. He died 18 Mar 1963.