He attended school together with Owen Barfield, who became his life-long friend and co-worker in many areas of his life. Together they studied at Oxford University and were part of the circle of the Inklings that included Christian Science Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien.
Cecil Harwood was the youngest of five children born into the household of a pastor. He remained connected to the school for the rest his life. Daphne and he had had five children and worked together for over 25 years when she died in 1950.
Harwood had joined the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain shortly after meeting Rudolf Steiner for the first time in 1924.
In 1937 he became its chairman and General Secretary, a position he carried until 1974. In this capacity he was instrumental not just in developing the work in the United Kingdom but also in re-establishing the international relationships within the Anthroposophical Society as a whole after the internal difficulties of the 1930s and ‘40s.
This implied a certain amount of travel, which he undertook not just on behalf of the Society but also in assisting the growth and development of Waldorf education worldwide and in particular, in the United States. Besides this, he translated into English certain central works of Anthroposophical life from Rudolf Steiner’s original formulations.
lieutenant seems to have been a fruitful relationship throughout, influencing the work and thought of all three.
He went mysteriously blind in the course of holding a lecture in 1975 and died not long after in South Harbour, the house he and Marguerite had shared in Forest Row.
