Hugh Ross Williamson was a prolific British historian

Historian

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, and a dramatist. Starting from a career in the literary world, and having a Nonconformist background, he became an Anglican clergyman in 1943.

In 1955 he became a convert to Roman Catholicism and garnered wrote many historical works in a Catholic apologist tone. In 1956 published his autobiography, The Walled Garden.

Works

• A Wicked Pack of Cards (1961)
• 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
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