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Name
  
Hugh Williamson

Role
  
Historian

Died
  
1978


Nominations
  
Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Books
  
The Young People's Book of S, Who was the man in the iron m, The great prayer, Enigmas of history, Lorenzo the Magnificent

Hugh Ross Williamson (1901-1978) was a prolific British popular historian, and a dramatist. Starting from a career in the literary world, and having a Nonconformist background, he became an Anglican priest in 1943.

In 1955 he became a convert to Roman Catholicism and wrote many historical works in a Catholic apologist tone. In 1956 published his autobiography, The Walled Garden. Williamson was a critical of the reforms introduced by the Second Vatican Council.

Works

  • A Wicked Pack of Cards (1947)
  • John Hampden - A Life (1933)
  • George Villiers - First Duke of Buckingham (study for a biography, 1940)
  • King James I (1935)
  • The Silver Bowl (1948)
  • Teresa of Avila (1961)
  • The Poetry of T. S. Eliot (1932)
  • The Seven Deadly Virtues (1936)
  • Stories From History (1938)
  • Who is for Liberty? (1939)
  • Paul: A Bond Slave (1945)
  • Charles and Cromwell (1946)
  • The Story Without End (1947)
  • The Arrow and the Sword
  • The Seven Christian Virtues (1949)
  • Four Stuart Portraits (1949)
  • Sir Walter Raleigh (1951)
  • Queen Elizabeth (1951) drama
  • Ackermann's Cambridge (1952)
  • The Story Without an End (1953)
  • The Ancient Capital: an Historian In Search Of Winchester (1953)
  • Canterbury Cathedral (1953)
  • His Eminence of England: the Canterbury Festival Play (1953)
  • The Great Prayer: Concerning the Canon of the Mass (1955)
  • James: By the Grace of God (1955)
  • Historical Whodunits (1955)
  • The walled garden (autobiography; 1956)
  • The Beginning of the English Reformation (1957)
  • Enigmas of History (1957)
  • The Day They Killed the King (1957)
  • Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?
  • The Challenge of Bernadette (1958)
  • The Sisters (1958)
  • The Gunpowder Plot
  • The Conspirators And The Crown (1959)
  • Young People's Book of the Saints (1960)
  • The Day Shakespeare Died (1961)
  • The Flowering Hawthorn (1962)
  • Guy Fawkes (1964)
  • The Modern Mass - A Reversion To the Reforms of Cranmer (1969)
  • The Cardinal in England (1970)
  • The Florentine Woman (1970)
  • The Last of the Valois (1971)
  • Paris is Worth a Mass (1971)
  • Kind Kit: an Informal Biography of Christopher Marlowe (1972)
  • Catherine de' Medici (1973)
  • Lorenzo the Magnificent (1974)
  • Captain Thomas Schofield (1975)
  • The Princess A Nun! (1978) (completed by Julian Rathbone)
  • Conversation with a Ghost

    • References

    Hugh Ross Williamson Wikipedia
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