About Michael de la Bédoyère

Count Michael Anthony Maurice de la Bédoyère (1900–1973) was an English writer, editor and journalist. From 1934 to 1962 he was editor of the Catholic Herald. He wrote a number of books, mainly biographies such as those of Lafayette (1932), George Washington (1935), St Francis of Assisi (1962), as well as theological works such as Christianity in the Market Place (1943). He was strongly anti-communist and during the Second World War, he almost went to prison for criticizing what he saw as Winston Churchill's appeasement of the "godless" Soviet Union.