Christopher Hollis

Maurice Christopher Hollis, known as Christopher Hollis (2 December 1902 – 5 May 1977), was a British schoolmaster, university teacher, author and Conservative politician.

Life Hollis was born at Wells, Somerset, in 1902, one of the four sons of George Arthur Hollis (1868–1944), vice-principal of the Wells Theological College and later Bishop of Taunton. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union Society and a member of the Hypocrites' Club. He travelled as a member of the Union's debating team to the United States, New Zealand and Australia. At Oxford he met his lifelong friend Douglas Woodruff. He was a friend of Ronald Knox and Evelyn Waugh and in 1924 converted to Roman Catholicism,

He was the brother of Sir Roger Hollis, sometime Director General of MI5,

Saint Ignatius (1931) The Breakdown of Money: An Historical Explanation (1934) Sir Thomas More (1934) The Two Nations: A Financial Study of English History (1935) Our Case: What We Are Fighting For - and Why (1939) Death of a Gentleman: The Letters of Robert Fossett (1943) History of Britain in Modern Times, 1688-1939 (The Ashley Histories) (1946) The Rise and Fall of the Ex-Socialist Government (1947) Can Parliament Survive? (1949) G. K. Chesterton (Writers and Their Work) (1950) Evelyn Waugh (Writers and Their Work) (1954) A Study of George Orwell: The Man and His Works (1956) The Ayes and the Noes (1957) Eton: A History (1960) The Church and Economics (Faith and Fact Books) (1961) The Homicide Act (1964) The Papacy: An Illustrated History from St Peter to Paul VI (1964) The Oxford Union (1965) The Achievements of Vatican II (Knowledge and Faith) (1967) Newman and the Modern World (1968) The Jesuits: A History (1968) The Mind of Chesterton (1969) Holy Places: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Monuments in the Holy Land (1969) Parliament and its Sovereignty (1973) The Seven Ages: Their Exits and Their Entrances (1974) Oxford in the Twenties (1976)