Eric Gill (1882–1940) was an English stone carver, wood engraver, essayist, and typographer. A convert to the Catholic Church, he was, together with G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Fr. Vincent McNabb, and others, a founder of the Distributist movement: an economic and social theory based on Catholic Social Teaching and regarded as a “third way” beyond capitalism and socialism. Gill was also a founder, with other leading Catholics such as Fr. Gerald Vann, O.P., Donald Attwater, and E.I. Watkin, of the Pax movement in England.