Mr. Winston Elliott

W. Winston Elliott III is Director of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. He is a parishioner of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham (since 2000). He teaches in the Holy House Academy and previously served as Parochial Master of Ceremonies and as the founding Grand Knight of the OLW Council of the Knights of Columbus. He and his wife Barbara were received into the Church at Our Lady of Walsingham in 2001.

In 2014 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts in the Honors College of Houston Christian University. He also is a Senior Fellow of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. He previously served as publisher of the St. Austin Review, a Catholic magazine of literature and culture. His essays have appeared in the National Catholic Register, The Imaginative Conservative, and the St. John’s Review.

Mr. Elliott is Publisher and Editor in Chief of The Imaginative Conservative. The Imaginative Conservative is an e-journal, which has published more than 10,000 essays by 1,500 authors since its debut in 2010. It has reached more than 33 million readers.

Mr. Elliott received his Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College (Annapolis), Master of Arts in Theology from the University of St. Thomas (Houston), and was awarded the Master of Business Administration, with Honors, from the University of Houston. In 1994 he was named Adjunct Professor of Business and Public Policy with Northwood University (Midland, Michigan), where he taught economics and public policy from 1993 until 1997. 

Mr. Elliott is a member of the Board of Rosary College. He served on the Board of Directors of Wyoming Catholic College from 2016-2022. He also served on the President’s Council of St. John’s College, the Boards of Trustees of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, and the Philadelphia Society. 

In 1983, Mr. Elliott founded Entre’ Computer Center (Houston).  He served as President of this computer services company until it was sold in 1991. In 1992 he was appointed President of the Free Enterprise Institute and leads its educational programs.

Mr. Elliott was born in Salisbury, Maryland. He is married to the author Barbara J. Elliott (Street Saints, Candles Behind the Wall) who is the founder and President of the Center for Cultural Renewal and was Professor of Liberal Arts in the Honors College of Houston Christian University for 14 years.  Together, they have four children and 19 grandchildren.
October 22, 2025