Born in the county of Westchester in New York and a graduate of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, with an M.A. (Hons) in Modern History, and now living in London. Formerly resident in South Africa, studying at the University of Stellenbosch.

Printed in publications as varying as the Weekly Standard and the Journal of the Guild of Mace-bearers. Writes in English (and sometimes Afrikaans), and has been translated into French, Spanish, Catalan, and Swedish.

Formerly Associate Editor of The New Criterion (“America’s leading review of the arts and intellectual life” — The Daily Telegraph; “more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English” — The Times Literary Supplement), having been promoted from Assistant Editor.

Previously the editor-in-chief and founder of The Mitre, a student newspaper at the University of St Andrews. Publisher and co-founder of the Mitre Literary Review.

Committee member, previously, of a number of student organizations including the University of St Andrews Catholic Society, the Literary Society, and two private student clubs. Member of the University of St Andrews Boat Club; competed in inter-university rowing with little success but much enjoyment.

Before university, educated to varying degrees at the Thornton-Donovan School in New Rochelle, New York, with a brief foray at St. Alban’s College in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lover of history, art, architecture, heraldry, vexillology, music, and innumerable other subjects, with particular interest in Scotland, Ireland, and England, South Africa, the Netherlands, New York, Argentina, Austria-Hungary (but really more Hungary), and France.