Philip Hagreen (1890 - 1988)

Noted Catholic wood engraver, illustrator, artist, and social critic, Hagreen studied as a painter in Cornwall and London. After trying a number of trades he discovered wood engraving, and became, in 1920, a founding member of the Society of Wood Engravers, and a member of the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic, which was founded by Eric Gill and H. Pepler. Hagreen was also a pithy writer, and contributed regularly to The Cross and the Plough, the journal of the English Catholic Land Movement.