Hugh Ross Williamson
Hugh Ross Williamson was a prolific British popular historian, amateur ghost hunter, 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 became a convert 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
- John Hampden: a life
- Rose and glove: a play
- After the event: a play in one act
- King James I
- Gods and mortals in love
- The seven deadly virtues; In a glass darkly; Various heavens: a play sequence.
- Cinderella's grandchild: a play in one act
- Mr Gladstone: a play in three acts
- Stories from history: ten plays for schools
- Who is for liberty?
- George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham: study for a biography
- A.D. 33: a tract for the times
- Captain Thomas Schofield
- Paul, a bond slave: a radio play
- Charles and Cromwell
- The arrow and the sword: an essay in detection
- Queen Elizabeth: a play in three acts
- The story without end
- Were you there... ?: six meditations for Holy Week
- A wicked pack of cards
- The silver bowl
- The seven Christian virtues
- Four Stuart portraits
- The evidence for the Gunpowder Plot
- The Gunpowder Plot
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Conversation with a ghost
- Jeremy Taylor
- The story without an end
- The ancient capital: an historian in search Of Winchester
- Canterbury Cathedral
- The children's book of British saints
- His eminence of England: a play in two acts
- The children's book of French saints
- The children's book of Italian saints
- The great prayer: concerning the canon of the Mass
- James: by the grace of God
- Historical whodunits
- The walled garden: an autobiography
- Methods of book design: the practice of an industrial craft
- The beginning of the English Reformation
- Enigmas of history
- The day they killed the king
- The challenge of Bernadette
- The children's book of German saints
- The sisters
- The children's book of patron saints
- The conspirators and the crown
- Young people's book of the saints
- Teresa of Avila
- The day Shakespeare died
- The flowering hawthorn
- Guy Fawkes
- The modern Mass: a reversion to the reforms of Cranmer
- The cardinal in England
- The Florentine woman
- The last of the Valois
- Paris is worth a mass
- Kind Kit: an informal biography of Christopher Marlowe
- Catherine de' Medici
- Lorenzo the Magnificent
- Historical enigmas
- The princess a nun!: a novel without fiction
