Hugh Ross Williamson (1901 - 1978) was a prolific British historian, and a dramatist. Starting from a career in the literary world, and having a Nonconformist background, he became an Anglicanclergyman in 1943; and later in 1955 a Catholic convert. He wrote many historical works in a Catholic apologist tone. 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... A historian is a person who studies history. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... A nonconformist is an English or Welsh Protestant of any non-Anglican denomination, chiefly advocating religious liberty. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... see also Holy Orders The following terms have traditional meanings for the Anglican Church, and possibly beyond: A churchman is in principle a member of a church congregation, in practice someone in holy orders. ...
Works
The Poetry of T. S. Eliot (1932)
The Seven Deadly Virtues (1936) drama
Stories From History (1938)
Who is for Liberty? (1939)
Paul: A Bond Slave (1945) radio play
Charles and Cromwell (1946)
The Story Without End (1947)
The Arrow and the Sword
The Seven Christian Virtues (1949)
Four Stuart Portraits (1949)
Sir Walter Raleigh (1951)
Queen Elizabeth (1951) drama
Ackermann's Cambridge (1952)
The Story Without an End (1953)
The Ancient Capital: an Historian In Search Of Winchester (1953)
Canterbury Cathedral (1953)
His Eminence of England: the Canterbury Festival Play (1953)
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)
Who Was the Man in the Iron Mask?
The Challenge of Bernadette (1958)
The Sisters (1958)
The Gunpowder Plot
The Conspirators And The Crown (1959)
Young People's Book of the Saints (1960)
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)
Williamson continued on to the Netherlands where, taking advantage of the cover afforded by his attendance at meetings on scientific and educational subjects, he organized the publication of pamphlets and other papers that supported the Patriot cause.
Williamson's bold innovations in preventive medicine, especially his strenuous efforts to indoctrinate raw troops in the importance of sanitation and diet, kept the command virtually free of disease during the six months that it inhabited the swamp-—a rare feat in eighteenth-century warfare.
Williamson, a faithful attendee at Convention sessions, lodged with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, two of the country's best-known nationalist leaders.
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