A native of the county of Westchester in New York and graduate of the University of St Andrews in Scotland, having been granted an M.A. (Hons) in Modern History. Recently spent most of 2009 in South Africa, studying at the University of Stellenbosch.

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 devoted to the high-minded yet light-hearted dissemination of news and discussion of ideas at the University of St Andrews. Publisher and co-founder of the Mitre Literary Review, a journal of arts and letters in much the same vein as The Mitre.

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.

When in New York, can usually be found serving at the traditional Mass every Sunday at the Church of St. Agnes on Forty-third Street in Manhattan.

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