Maurice Child FRGS was a prominent Anglo-Catholic priest in the Church of England in the inter-war years.
He served curacies at St Andrew's Haverstock Hill, Kentish Town; St. Michael, Plymouth; Holy Trinity, Sloane Street; and St. Mary, Pimlico.
He was a librarian at Pusey House, Oxford and General Secretary of the English Church Union.
Peter and Paul, a group within Anglo-Catholicism which promoted a Tridentine interpretation of the Book of Common Prayer and whose motto was "Back to Baroque".
During the First World War he was with the British Expeditionary Force in France serving as a liaison officer.