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Christopher Derrick was born on 12 June, 1921 in Hungerford, England, is an A 20th-century essayist. Discover Christopher Derrick's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?
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publisher's reader, reviewer, essayist |
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86 years old |
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Gemini |
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12 June, 1921 |
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12 June |
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Hungerford, England |
Date of death |
2 October, 2007 |
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Christopher Derrick Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Christopher Derrick's Wife?
His wife is Katharine Helen Sharratt
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Katharine Helen Sharratt |
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eight sons and a daughter |
Christopher Derrick Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Christopher Derrick worth at the age of 86 years old? Christopher Derrick’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from . We have estimated Christopher Derrick's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Christopher Hugh Derrick (12 June 1921 – 2 October 2007) was an English author, reviewer, publisher's reader and lecturer.
All his works are informed by wide interest in contemporary problems and a lively commitment to Catholic teaching.
Christopher Derrick was born at Hungerford, the son of the artist, illustrator and cartoonist Thomas Derrick and his wife Margaret ( Clausen) Derrick.
His elder brother was Michael Derrick, both were educated at Douai School (1934–39).
Besides working as a literary adviser to a number of British publishing houses, Derrick was also a prolific book reviewer, among other publications for The Times Literary Supplement as well as for The Tablet, where his brother Michael Derrick was the assistant editor 1938–1961.
For a time he was himself the editor of Good Work, the journal of the Catholic Art Association.
His daily occupation as a publisher's reader and a book reviewer meant constant engagement with the emerging trends of literary culture.
He drew on this in many ways, including the writing of a book of advice for aspiring novelists: Reader's Report on the Writing of Novels.
Christopher Derrick attended Magdalen College, Oxford (1940; 1945–47), his studies being interrupted by service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
In 1943, he married Katharine Helen Sharratt, who graduated from Bedford College the same year.
They had nine children, eight sons and a daughter.
From 1953 to 1965 he was Printing Officer of the University of London, as well as working as a reader for Macmillan.
Thereafter he worked independently as a literary adviser to various publishers, as a book reviewer, and as a writer and lecturer.
Most of Derrick's writings, however, draw less on such literary reminiscences than on reflection on matters of pressing public concern within and outside the Catholic Church in the 1960s, 70s and 80s: the environment, social relations, sexual relations, population, liturgy, ecumenism, inter-religious dialogue, education, and the current state of language and literature.
One of the more successful of these books was Escape from Scepticism, a work inspired by the great books programme at Thomas Aquinas College in California.
He provided as definitive an answer as possible in his 1981 book C. S. Lewis and the Church of Rome.
Another friend was the economist E. F. Schumacher, whose interest in Catholic social teaching he shared.
He died on 2 October 2007 at the age of 86.
His surviving literary papers have been deposited in the archive at Douai Abbey, Berkshire.
Most interest in Derrick has been in his memories of G. K. Chesterton, who was a friend of his father, and more especially C. S. Lewis, who was Derrick's tutor at Magdalen.
He was constantly being asked by Lewis's Catholic admirers – such as the German Neo-Thomist, Josef Pieper, two of whose works Derrick had reviewed – why Lewis himself never became a Catholic.