Christopher Dawson

Christopher Dawson FBA
Born	(1889-10-12)12 October 1889 Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, Brecknockshire, Wales
Died	25 May 1970(1970-05-25) (aged 80) Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England
Occupation	Historian
Academic background
Education	Trinity College, Oxford Winchester College
Academic work
Main interests	Cultural history

Christopher Henry Dawson FBA (12 October 1889 – 25 May 1970) was an English Catholic historian, independent scholar, who wrote many books on cultural history and emphasized the necessity for Western culture to be in continuity with Christianity not to stagnate and deteriorate. Dawson has been called "the greatest English-speaking Catholic historian of the twentieth century"^[1] and was recognized as being able to expound his thought to "Catholic and Protestant, Christian and non-Christian."^[2]

The 1988–1989 academic year at the College of Europe was named in Dawson's honour. ^{[citation needed]}