John Hamilton Maxwell Staniforth CBE (23 June 1893 – 26 December 1985), known to his family as Max,[1] was a British soldier, railwayman, radio presenter, clergyman and scholar.
[2] Staniforth served as an infantry officer with the Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) of the 16th Irish Division on the Western Front from 1914-1918.
Staniforth returned from Argentina, and became the first full-time presenter for Radio Normandy (a commercial English-language service) in 1931.
[4][5] In November 1932 he transferred to Radio Toulouse before taking up a position at the International Broadcasting Company headquarters in London.
[2] Staniforth translated Marcus Aurelieus' Meditations for Penguin Classics,[7] and later worked on their Early Christian Writings.