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Martin D'Arcy

Martin D'Arcy, English Jesuit priest (died 1976)

Born
June 15, 1888
Died
November 20, 1976
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Birth year
1888

About Martin D'Arcy

Martin Cyril D'Arcy 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, Dorothy L. Sayers, W. H. Auden, Eric Gill and Sir Edwin Lutyens. He has been described as "perhaps England's foremost Catholic public intellectual from the 1930s until his death". Born at Bath, Somerset, the youngest of four sons of Northern Circuit barrister Martin Valentine D'Arcy and Madoline Mary (née Keegan), D'Arcy was educated at Stonyhurst, at Oxford (M.A.), and at the Gregorian University in Rome. The permanent collection of Loyola University Museum of Art is named in his memory the Martin D'Arcy Collection. Father Martin D'Arcy: Philosopher of Christian Love.

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The world when Martin D'Arcy was born

Martin D'Arcy was born in 1888. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineGreat Blizzard of 1888 paralyzes US East Coast
  • Technology milestoneKodak box camera — "You press the button, we do the rest"
  • Defining fadKodak camera craze
  • World population~1.48B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population57.6M

1888 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Martin D'Arcy's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18882026
Population57.6M341 million

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