Hugh Ross Williamson

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

Works

 * The poetry of T. S. Eliot (1932)
 * John Hampden: a life (1933)
 * Rose and glove: a play (1934)
 * After the event: a play in one act (1935)
 * King James I (1935)
 * Gods and mortals in love (1936)
 * The seven deadly virtues; In a glass darkly; Various heavens: a play sequence. (1936)
 * Cinderella's grandchild: a play in one act (1936)
 * Mr Gladstone: a play in three acts (1937)
 * Stories from history: ten plays for schools (1938)
 * Who is for liberty? (1939)
 * George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham: study for a biography (1940)
 * A.D. 33: a tract for the times (1941)
 * Captain Thomas Schofield (1942)
 * Paul, a bond slave: a radio play (1945)
 * Charles and Cromwell (1946)
 * The arrow and the sword: an essay in detection (1947)
 * Queen Elizabeth: a play in three acts (1947)
 * The story without an end (1947)
 * Were you there ... ?: six meditations for Holy Week (1947)
 * A wicked pack of cards (1947)
 * The silver bowl (1948)
 * The seven Christian virtues (1949)
 * Four Stuart portraits (1949)
 * The evidence for the Gunpowder Plot (1950)
 * The Gunpowder Plot (1951)
 * Sir Walter Raleigh (1951)
 * Conversation with a ghost (1952)
 * Jeremy Taylor (1952)
 * The story without an end (1953)
 * The ancient capital: an historian in search Of Winchester (1953)
 * Canterbury Cathedral (1953)
 * The children's book of British saints (1953)
 * His eminence of England: a play in two acts (1953)
 * The children's book of French saints (1954)
 * The children's book of Italian saints (1955)
 * The great prayer: concerning the canon of the Mass (1955)
 * James: by the grace of God (1955)
 * Historical whodunits (1955)
 * The walled garden: an autobiography (1956)
 * The beginning of the English Reformation (1957)
 * Enigmas of history (1957)
 * The day they killed the king (1957)
 * The challenge of Bernadette (1958)
 * The children's book of German saints (1958)
 * The sisters (1958)
 * The children's book of patron saints (1959)
 * The conspirators and the crown (1959)
 * Young people's book of the saints (1960)
 * Teresa of Avila (1961)
 * 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)
 * Historical enigmas (1974)
 * The princess a nun!: a novel without fiction (1978; completed by Julian Rathbone)