William Purcell Witcutt (c. 1910 - c. 1970s) was a notable British religious minister, folklorist and author.
Witcutt was the son of a Staffordshire merchant tailor. He advised law at The University of Birmingham, England, and about 1928 his absorption in G.K. Chesterton's anti-industrial approach of Distributism led him to become a arresting contributor to Chesterton's G. K.'s Weekly publication, breadth he was a able analyzer of the approach of the Leisure State. His absorption in Distributism connected into the 1930s, as affirmation by his commodity "William Morris: distributist" in American Review in 1934 (II, pp. 311-15), and he appears to accept been a Distributist at atomic until about the beginning of war in 1939. His 46-page announcement The Dying Lands: a fifty years' plan for the afflicted areas appeared beneath the banner of the Distributist League of London in 1937, and offered a abolitionist agrarian band-aid to the botheration of accumulation unemployment. This band of anticipation eventually led him into the Roman Catholic church, and on converting to Catholicism -sometime in the aboriginal 1930s - he acquired a allotment to abandoned the accepted two-year beginning period, anon adventure a seven-year seminary training at New Oscott to become a Catholic priest. On admission he was beatific to serve in a hole archdiocese in adjacent Birmingham. He tells in his airy adventures Return to Reality (1954), of how his address on The Reformation and the base attributes of abounding medieval Catholic priests aback led to his actuality 'banished' to serve in the best alien genitalia of the diocese. He appropriately became a archdiocese priest in the apprehensive rural boondocks and hinterlands of Leek in North Staffordshire, and again during the Second World War additionally served at St. Annes, Wappenbury in Warwickshire. He eventually adapted aback to the Abbey of England, which was a notable and controversy-stirring move at the time - his re-conversion alike becoming an commodity in the American Time annual ("To Rome & Return", Time 4 July 1955). He again became a high-church Anglican abbey in the alive chic breadth of East Ham, London, and afterwards on served as the Rector of Foulness Island a abbreviate while afterwards it had been abominably afflicted by the abundant North Sea Flood.
Witcutt was the son of a Staffordshire merchant tailor. He advised law at The University of Birmingham, England, and about 1928 his absorption in G.K. Chesterton's anti-industrial approach of Distributism led him to become a arresting contributor to Chesterton's G. K.'s Weekly publication, breadth he was a able analyzer of the approach of the Leisure State. His absorption in Distributism connected into the 1930s, as affirmation by his commodity "William Morris: distributist" in American Review in 1934 (II, pp. 311-15), and he appears to accept been a Distributist at atomic until about the beginning of war in 1939. His 46-page announcement The Dying Lands: a fifty years' plan for the afflicted areas appeared beneath the banner of the Distributist League of London in 1937, and offered a abolitionist agrarian band-aid to the botheration of accumulation unemployment. This band of anticipation eventually led him into the Roman Catholic church, and on converting to Catholicism -sometime in the aboriginal 1930s - he acquired a allotment to abandoned the accepted two-year beginning period, anon adventure a seven-year seminary training at New Oscott to become a Catholic priest. On admission he was beatific to serve in a hole archdiocese in adjacent Birmingham. He tells in his airy adventures Return to Reality (1954), of how his address on The Reformation and the base attributes of abounding medieval Catholic priests aback led to his actuality 'banished' to serve in the best alien genitalia of the diocese. He appropriately became a archdiocese priest in the apprehensive rural boondocks and hinterlands of Leek in North Staffordshire, and again during the Second World War additionally served at St. Annes, Wappenbury in Warwickshire. He eventually adapted aback to the Abbey of England, which was a notable and controversy-stirring move at the time - his re-conversion alike becoming an commodity in the American Time annual ("To Rome & Return", Time 4 July 1955). He again became a high-church Anglican abbey in the alive chic breadth of East Ham, London, and afterwards on served as the Rector of Foulness Island a abbreviate while afterwards it had been abominably afflicted by the abundant North Sea Flood.
