| Jack Catchpool | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | CBE |
| Office3: | Warden of Toynbee Hall |
| Term Start3: | 1963 |
| Term End3: | 1964 |
| Predecessor3: | Arthur Eustace Morgan |
| Successor3: | Walter Birmingham |
| Birth Date: | 22 August 1890 |
| Birth Place: | Leicester, UK |
| Death Place: | Welwyn Garden City, UK |
| Education: | Sidcot School Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre |
(Egerton) St John Pettifor Catchpool (1890-1971) also known as Jack Catchpool was a social worker who served as the warden of Toynbee Hall, London. He was general secretary of the Youth Hostels Association from its inception in 1930 until 1950.[1]
He attended the Quaker institutions Sidcot School and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre.[2]
During the First World War, Catchpool served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit in France and then with the Friends' war victims' relief committee in Russia.[2]
After the war, he held the post of sub-warden of Toynbee Hall from 1920 to 1929. He was a member of the London County Council education committee from 1925 to 1931.[2]
From 1930 to 1950 he served as the first general secretary of the Youth Hostels Association, and in 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation.[2] He was also the Chairman of the Romney Street Group from 935 to 1950.[3]
He married Ruth Allason in 1920 and they had five children.[1]
His older brother was Corder Catchpool.[4]
He was appointed chevalier of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau in 1948 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951.
He died at his home in Welwyn Garden City, Herfordshire, on 13 March 1971.[2]