Martin Cyril D'Arcy SJ (15 June 1888 – 20 November 1976) was an English Jesuit priest, philosopher of love, and a correspondent, friend, and adviser to a range of literary and artistic figures including Evelyn Waugh,[3] Dorothy L. Sayers, W. H. Auden, Eric Gill and Sir Edwin Lutyens.
[4] Born at Bath, Somerset,[5] the youngest of four sons of Northern Circuit barrister Martin Valentine D'Arcy and Madoline Mary (née Keegan),[6][7] D'Arcy was educated at Stonyhurst, at Oxford (M.A.
He spent much of his working life at the English Jesuit house in Oxford, Campion Hall, but also spent periods in residence at American universities, including Georgetown University, Gonzaga University, Cornell, and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Among the converts he received into the church was the German-Jewish Baroness Vera von der Heydt.
He is buried in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green.