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John Joseph Scarisbrick

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(often shortened to J.J. Scarisbrick) is a British historian who taught at the

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. 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 T ...

of Life, a British

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

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and later

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, 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 received an

in 2015 for services to vulnerable people as founder of Zoe's Place, a hospice for children in

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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 {{UK-historian-stub