John Joseph Scarisbrick is a British historian who taught at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

. He is also noted as the co-founder with his wife

Nuala Scarisbrick Nuala Ann Scarisbrick (18 January 1939 – 31 August 2021), was co-founder in 1970, with her husband Jack Scarisbrick, and National Administrator of Life, a British anti-abortion charity. Early life She was the eldest of the three children of ...

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, a British

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charity founded in 1970. Born in 1928 in London, Scarisbrick was educated at

The John Fisher School The John Fisher School is a Roman Catholic voluntary-aided boys' faith school based at Peaks Hill, near Purley, South London. The school is located in and funded by the London Borough of Sutton. It occupies the former site of the 19th-century ...

and later

Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. The c ...

, after spending two years in the

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. He specialises in Tudor history and his most critically acclaimed work is ''Henry VIII'', first published in 1968. He was appointed MBE in 2015 for services to vulnerable people as founder of Zoe's Place, a hospice for children in

Coventry Coventry ( or rarely ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne. Coventry had been a large settlement for centurie ...

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1928 births Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Warwick Living people Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Members of the Order of the British Empire British anti-abortion activists People educated at The John Fisher School Tudor historians {{UK-historian-stub