Maurice Benington Reckitt (19 June 1888 – 11 January 1980) was a leading English Anglo-Catholic and Christian socialist writer.
His background was wealthy, with the family business Reckitt's of Hull manufacturing a well-known brand of bluing.
He graduated from St John's College, Oxford in 1911 with a second-class honours degree in history.
[1] At Oxford, and elsewhere throughout his life, he studied under Sir Ernest Barker, H. A. L. Fisher, G. K. Chesterton, A. R. Orage, John Neville Figgis, P. E. T. Widdrington, and V. A.
[1] Reckitt was a leading player and croquet administrator winning the Men's Championship twice (1935 and 1946).