Jasper Ridley
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Jasper Godwin Ridley (1920 – 2004) was a British writer, known for historical biographies.
He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and the Sorbonne. He trained and practiced as a barrister, before starting to write.
[edit] Works
- The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions (1942)
- The Law of the Carriage of Goods by Land, Sea and Air (1957)
- Nicholas Ridley (1957)
- Thomas Cranmer (1962)
- John Knox (1968)
- Lord Palmerston (1971)
- Garibaldi (1974)
- The Roundheads (1976)
- Napoleon III and Eugénie (1979)
- The History of England (1981)
- Statesman and the Fanatic: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More (1982)
- Life and Times of Mary Tudor (1973)
- Henry VIII the Politics of Tyranny (1984)
- The Tudor Age (1988)
- The Love Letters of Henry VIII (1988) editor
- Elizabeth I: the Shrewdness of Virtue (1988)
- Maximilian & Juarez (1992)
- Tito (1994)
- A History of the Carpenters' Company (1995)
- Mussolini (1997)
- The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society (1999)
- The Houses of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: A Royal History of England (2000) with John Clarke
- Bloody Mary's Martyrs: The Story of England’s Terror (2001)
- A Brief History of The Tudor Age (2002)
