Harold Robbins (1888 - 1954)

A Distributist, Catholic land movement activist, journalist, and editor, Robbins was born in Birmingham to a Protestant family, and converted to Catholicism in the early 1900s.He jumped into the Distributist movement early, and after military service in the first world War became Chairman of the Birmingham branch of the Distributist League. Dorothy Day noted in her paper, The Catholic Worker that Robbins’s 1938 opus, Sun of Justice, & contains the best thinking ever done on Distributism.