Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (26 July 1896 – 7 February 1979)[1] was an English political scientist and philosopher.

This was better established in the US and at the invitation of the historian Wallace Notestein he began lecturing at Cornell University where he had the close association of Carl Becker.

In 1926 he was appointed to be the director of the National Commission (Social Research Council) to study the impact of prohibition in the United States.

[3][5] Catlin was a strong proponent of Anglo-American co-operation, even to the extent of advocating an organic union between the two countries.

He visited Germany, where in 1933 he witnessed the trial of Georgi Dimitrov for, allegedly, setting the Reichstag on fire, a forewarning of what National Socialism was to engender.

He travelled to Soviet Russia, for a prolonged study of the newly established Bolshevik regime there, and to Spain, during the height of the Civil War.

He served on the campaign team of Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, during 1940, and his subsequent book, One Anglo-American Nation appeared in 1941.

He served as Provost of Mar Ivanios College in India for 1953–54 and as chairman and Bronfman Professor in the Department of Economics and Political Science at McGill University between 1956 and 1960.

He died in Southampton, Hampshire, in 1979 at the age of 82 and was buried alongside his father at St James the Great Church, Old Milverton, Warwickshire.