George Maxwell (1890 - 1957)

George Maxwell was a Catholic layman, Third Order Dominican, Distributist, peasant proprietor, and carpenter whose lifestyle embodied the ideals and attitudes that the Distributist League and the Catholic land movement were attempting to propagate. He was induced by Fr. Vincent McNabb to join the community of craftsmen and Distributists in Ditchling, a village in Sussex, England, in 1922. Ditchling was founded by Eric Gill, Hilary Pepler, and Edward Johnston.