Jasper Ridley

Jasper Godwin Ridley,

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Born in

, he served with an air defence unit and manned an anti-aircraft battery at Portsmouth, where the man next to him was killed by shrapnel.

He served on

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He married, in 1949, Vera Pollak, who died in 2002 and with whom he had two sons and a daughter.

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 (1970)
• The Life and Times of Mary Tudor (1973)
• Garibaldi (1974)
• The Roundheads (1976)
• Napoleon III and Eugénie (1979)
• The History of England (1981)
• The Statesman and the Fanatic: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More (1982); US title: Statesman and Saint: Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, and the Politics of Henry VIII (1983)
• Henry VIII (1984); US title: Henry VIII: The Politics of Tyranny (1985)
• Elizabeth I (1987); US title: Elizabeth I: the Shrewdness of Virtue (1988)
• The
  Tudor Age
  (1988)
• The Love Letters of Henry VIII (1988) editor
• Maximilian and 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)

External links

• "Jasper Ridley", Fellows Remembered, The Royal Society of Literature
• Obituary in the Daily Telegraph, 8 July 2004
• http://www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/Back/Wnext17/Mildiscp.html Archived 11 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine