Background
Ridley, Jasper Godwin was born on May 25, 1920 in West Hoathly, England. Son of Geoffrey William and Ursula Mary (King) Ridley.
(From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford ...)
From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. This title collects the various strands of Tudor life - London and the country, furniture and food, travel, medicine, sports and pastimes, and the misery of the Plague.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FDV7XW4/?tag=2022091-20
(Lord Palmerston was one of the most successful of all Bri...)
Lord Palmerston was one of the most successful of all British politicians. Linking the world of the Regency with the middle of Queen Victoria's reign, he was made Secretary at War in 1809 at the age of twenty-five, and held the post for nineteen years. From 1830 to 1841 he was Foreign Secretary. At first he was regarded as weak and ineffectual, a 'Lord Cupid' who was more active in love affairs than in diplomacy; but before the end of his term of office he had raised English prestige in Europe to a record height. Without any special following in Parliament, he became the most popular statesman in the country, because of his vigorous defence of the rights Englishmen abroad.He played a crucial part in the creation of Belgium, saved Portugal and Spain from complete tyranny, rescued Turkey from Russia and saved the route to India from France. He was again Foreign Secretary from 1846-51, when he was in effect dismissed by Queen Victoria after undertaking to show her his foreign dispatches and then manifestly failing to do so. He would probably have averted the Crimean War if he had been Foreign Secretary at the time; and in 1855, at the age of seventy, he finally became Prime Minister, because the public believed he was the only man who could win the war. With a break of sixteen months, he was Prime Minister until he died in 1865.Palmerston was not greatly concerned with morality. His policy, first, last and all the time, was to protect and strengthen British interests, not least by a policy of brinkmanship that preserved the international balance of power and thus made British nineteenth-century prosperity possible.His personal energy and vitality were phenomenal-at the age of seventy-nine he rode from Piccadilly to Harrow in fifty-five minutes-and his treatment of his fellow men and women, from the humblest clerk in the Foreign Office to Metternich, Napoleon III and Queen Victoria, was consistently robust.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525148736/?tag=2022091-20
( One of the world's greatest reformers, Garibaldi won hi...)
One of the world's greatest reformers, Garibaldi won his first battle against Aegean pirates, his last against German dragoons, and in between went to jail in Russia and led Brazilian rebels on the field. Twice an admiral and seven times a general, and a high government official in at least five countries, his passion always remained his Italian homeland. An unmatched and definitive biography captures every thrilling aspect--personal and public--of this exemplary military figure, supreme politician, and even sometimes-farmer, who succeeded in making his dreams of a united Italy come true. "...dissects every facet of Garibaldi's loveable character and personality...Ridley excels all previous biographers when describing his subject's private life, and this exhaustive study is likely to remain the standard work for many years.--Philip Magnus, The Sunday Times. "Here is the story of a romantic hero who was also an intensely human practical man."--A.J.P. Taylor, The Observer.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1842121529/?tag=2022091-20
(Napoleon III attempts to make the Austrian Archduke Maxim...)
Napoleon III attempts to make the Austrian Archduke Maximilian the successor of Mexico's great nationalist leader, Benito Jua+a7rez, and sets the stage for a war of national liberation and the rise of United States influence in the hemisphere.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0899199895/?tag=2022091-20
Ridley, Jasper Godwin was born on May 25, 1920 in West Hoathly, England. Son of Geoffrey William and Ursula Mary (King) Ridley.
Student, Felcourt, Sussex, England, 1929-1935; student, Sorbonne, Paris, 1937; student, Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1938-1939.
He trained and practiced as a barrister, before starting to write. During World World War II, he was a conscientious objector and was, by his own account, violently abused while in a detention camp. He served on Street Pancras Borough Council from 1945 to 1949, and stood, unsuccessfully, as Labour Party candidate for Winchester in 1955 general election.
(Napoleon III attempts to make the Austrian Archduke Maxim...)
( One of the world's greatest reformers, Garibaldi won hi...)
(From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford ...)
(From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford ...)
(This work by the award-winning biographer on the controve...)
(From the biographer of Henry VIII, an appraisal of his yo...)
(The most comprehensive biography of John Knox since Hume ...)
(Lord Palmerston was one of the most successful of all Bri...)
(. with dustjacket, slight tanning to end papers, 1957 1st)
(Book by Ridley, Jasper)
(New)
Parliamentary candidate Labour Party, Winchester, England, 1955, Westbury, England, 1959, councillor, St. Pancras, London, 1945-1949. Served with British Artillery, 1940-1941. Fellow Royal Society Literature.
Member Carpenter Company London (master 1988-1989, 90-91, court since 1985), English Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association (vice president since 1985).
Married Vera Pollaková, October 1, 1949. Children: Barbara Susan, Benjamin Nicholas, John Simon.