Christopher Catherwood, (born 1 March 1955) is a British author based in Cambridge, England and, often, in Richmond, Virginia. He has taught for the Institute of Continuing Education based a few miles away in Madingley and has taught for many years for the School of Continuing Education at the University of Richmond. He has been associated each summer with the University of Richmond's History Department, where he is its annual summer Writer in Residence, and where most of his recent books have been written. History He is the son of Sir Fred Catherwood. He was educated at Westminster School, Balliol College, Oxford, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and the University of East Anglia where he obtained a PhD degree by publication. Since 1994 he has been linked to St Edmund's College, Cambridge. In 2001, he was a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Virginia's Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, and in 2002 was briefly a consultant to the British Cabinet Office's former Strategic Futures Team of their Performance and Innovation Unit. In 2002, he was a consultant to the Strategic Futures Team of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS). For his religious and historical non-fiction work he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 2005. In December 2008, he appeared as a cameo character in the online novel Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith, who wrote a positive review of his book on Churchill's creation of Iraq in The New York Times. In 2008, he was a Crosby Kemper Memorial Lecturer at the Churchill Memorial and Library, Westminster College in Fulton, MO. In 2009, he was a Marshall Lecturer at the George C. Marshall Center at the Virginia Military Institute. In the same year he was also an Osher Lecturer at the University of Richmond, VA. In 2010, he was a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Traveling Fellow (at the Evelyn Waugh Archives at the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, at the Fitzroy Maclean Archives at the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, and at the OSS Archives at the National Archives in College Park MD). In 2010, he again appeared as a cameo character in a second Alexander McCall Smith novel, The Dog Who Came in From The Cold. He currently teaches students