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Jane Ridley is a British historian and biographer. She is a professor of modern history at the University of Buckingham and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning biography of the Victorian Prime Minister Lord Salisbury, The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Prince of Wales (2013). Ridley was born in Northumberland, England, in 1953. She studied history at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded a first-class degree. She then went on to pursue a PhD in history at the University of Cambridge. Ridley has held a number of academic posts, including a lectureship at the University of East Anglia and a research fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research. She is currently a professor of modern history at the University of Buckingham. Ridley has written several books, including The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Prince of Wales (2013), which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. She has also written biographies of the Victorian Prime Minister Lord Salisbury and the Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins. Ridley is married to the historian and author Simon Schama. They have two children.

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Occupation Professor of modern history, biographer, author
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 15 May 1953
Birthday 15 May
Birthplace Northumberland, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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2008

In 2008, Ridley was given a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to work on her biography of King Edward VII, and this was finally published as Bertie: A Life of Edward VII in 2012. In reviewing the work for The Spectator, A. N. Wilson called it "profoundly learned and a cracking good read" and gave his opinion that "After this irreverent new life of Edward VII, royal biography will never be the same again."

2002

Ridley won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2002 for The Architect and his Wife, a biography of her great-grandfather Edwin Lutyens.

Ridley's biography of Lutyens, The Architect and his Wife, won the Duff Cooper Prize for 2002.

1995

In 1995, Ridley's The Young Disraeli was published, dealing with Benjamin Disraeli's early years. She disputes that he should be considered the father of one-nation conservatism, writing that "Disraeli didn't use the expression and nor did he want to create a classless society... The legend of Disraeli was created largely by the Conservative party, which needed a hero on whom to pin its ideas about making the party electable in a democracy."

1986

In 1986, Ridley married Stephen Francis Thomas, a writer, the younger son of Sir William Cooper Thomas, by his marriage to Freida Dunbar Whyte. They have two sons, Toby (born 1988) and Humphrey (born 1991).

1985

Ridley's first book was The Letters of Edwin Lutyens (1985), a collection of her great-grandfather's letters, edited jointly with her mother, Clayre Percy. She combined social history with her sport of fox hunting to produce Fox hunting: a history (1990), which begins with the words "Fox hunting isn't strictly necessary."

1979

In 1979, Ridley was appointed a lecturer in history at the University of Buckingham, where she was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1994, to Reader in 2002, to Senior Tutor responsible for student discipline the next year, and finally to Professor in 2007. At Buckingham she continues to serve as Senior Tutor and to teach history and has been in charge of the university's Master of Arts course in biography since establishing it in 1996. This was the first such postgraduate course.

1974

Ridley was educated at Cranborne Chase School, an independent boarding school for girls, since closed, then occupying New Wardour Castle, near the village of Tisbury in Wiltshire, and later at St Hugh's College, Oxford, as an Exhibitioner in History. She took a first class honours degree in 1974, then was a research student at Nuffield College until 1978, graduating D. Phil. in 1985 with a thesis entitled Leadership and Management in the Conservative Party in Parliament 1906–1914.

1953

Jane Ridley (born 15 May 1953) is an English historian, biographer, author and broadcaster, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham.

Born in Northumberland in the north east of England on 15 May 1953, Ridley is the eldest daughter of the former Conservative Cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley (1929–1993) and a granddaughter of Matthew, 3rd Viscount Ridley, by his marriage to Ursula Lutyens. Her father married Clayre Campbell (1927–2015), a daughter of Alistair, 4th Baron Stratheden and Campbell. They had three daughters, Jane (1953), Susanna (1955), and Jessica (1957), and were divorced in 1974. Her great-grandmother Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964), who dismayed her parents by marrying the architect Lutyens, was a daughter of the Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India in the 1870s. His parents were the novelists Edward and Rosina Bulwer Lytton. Her cousins include the economist Sir Adam Ridley.