Hugo Anthony Meynell (23 March 1936 – 1 October 2021)[1] was an English academic and author.
He was educated at Eton and at King's College at the University of Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD.
[7] Meynell described himself as a "Christian Rationalist" in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) and Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984), on whose work he has written.
[9] A devout Roman Catholic convert, he had an evangelical outlook and sympathy for British and American Protestantism.
In his later books he expressed a strong distaste for postmodernism and what he called "academic fads".