Maurice Ashley
1907–1994 (age 87)
Biography
Maurice Percy Ashley (4 September 1907 – 26 September 1994) was a British historian of the 17th Century and editor of The Listener. He published over thirty books, of which his Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate (1934) achieved wide academic influence, while his biographies Cromwell (1937) and General Monck (1977) received particular praise.