John Joseph Scarisbrick MBE, a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick, died on February 28, 2026, aged 97.
Born in London on October 6, 1928, he studied at The John Fisher School and Christ’s College, Cambridge, after two years in the Royal Air Force. He specialised in Tudor history and wrote Henry VIII, first published in 1968.
Scarisbrick was co-founder, with his wife Nuala Scarisbrick, of Life, a British anti-abortion charity founded in 1970. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1969 and appointed MBE in 2015 for services to vulnerable people as founder of Zoe’s Place, a hospice for children in Coventry.
John Joseph Scarisbrick MBE (6 October 1928 – 28 February 2026) was a British historian who taught at the University of Warwick. He is also noted as the co-founder, with his wife Nuala Scarisbrick, of Life, a British anti-abortion charity founded in 1970.