User:Jgrantduff/Jane Ridley

Jane Ridley is an author and historian. She is the daughter of Nicholas Ridley, former MP for Cirencester and Environment Secretary in the Government's of Mrs Thatcher during 1980's. Lord Ridley, a characteristically Old Etonian Tory died in 1993. Jane produced a new work on Benjamin Disraeli to critical acclaim in 1995 entitled "The Young Disraeli: 1804-1846". It was admired by Andrew Marr, the BBC TV historian and by Lord Blake, the acknowledged official historian of the Conservative Party.