Maurice Charles Hollis

Maurice Charles Hollis (29 March 1902 – 5 May 1977) was a British Conservative Party politician [Obituary- Mr Christopher Hollis Writer and former MP The Times Monday, May 09, 1977; pg. 16; Issue 59998; col E] .
The son of an Anglican Bishop, he was educated at Eton and Balliol [“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X] . He was an assistant master at Stonyhurst College from 1925 to 1935 and then a lecturer at Notre Dame University, Indiana until the outbreak of the Second World War during which he served with the RAF. Elected to Parliament in 1945 he served three terms before resigning to pursue a career as a writer [Amongst others he wrote “A Study of George Orwell”, 1956; “The Ayes and the Noes”, 1957; “Eton”, 1960; “The Oxford Union”, 1965; “Newman and the Modern World”, 1968; “A History of the Jesuits”, 1968; “The Mind of Chesterton”, 1969; “Parliament and its Sovereignty”, 1973; and “Oxford in the Twenties”, 1976 > British Library web site accessed 16:52 21 September, 2008] .

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