Jasper Ridley

Jasper Ridley 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. During World War II, he was a conscientious objector and was, by his own account, violently abused while in a detention camp. He served on St Pancras Borough Council from 1945 to 1949, and stood, unsuccessfully, as Labour Party candidate for Winchester in 1955 general election.

Books in order of publication:

Thomas Cranmer	1962
John Knox	1968
Lord Palmerston	1970
The Life and Times of Mary Tudor	1973
Garibaldi	1974
The Roundheads	1976
Napoleon III	1980
Napoleon III and Eugenie	1980
Statesman and Saint	1982
The History of England	1985
Henry VIII: The Politics of Tyranny	1984
Elizabeth I	1987
A Brief History of the Tudor Age	1988
Ridley’s Law of the Carriage of Goods by Land, Sea and Air	1988
Maximilian & Juarez	1993
Tito	1994
A History Of The Carpenters’ Company	1995
Mussolini	2000
Bloody Mary’s Martyrs	2001
The Freemasons: A History of the World’s Most Powerful Secret Society	2002
Secret Societies	2003
The Love Letters Of Henry Viii	2013