Jack Scarisbrick

Professor John Joseph Scarisbrick MBE FRHistS (often shortened to J.J. Scarisbrick) is a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick.[1] He is also noted as the co-founder with his wife Nuala Scarisbrick of LIFE, a British pro-life charity founded in 1970.[1]

Born in 1928 in London, Scarisbrick was educated at The John Fisher School and later Christ's College, Cambridge, after spending two years in the Royal Air Force.[1] He specialises in Tudor history and his most critically acclaimed work is Henry VIII, first published in 1968.[2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Freddy Gray, "I am an unsubtle sort of chap", The Catholic Herald, 21 December 2007.
  2. ↑ Signposts: The Tudors, History Today

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