Lord Eustace Percy

Lord Eustace Percy (1887-1958), a British Conservative politician, diplomat, and author, is most notable for his biography John Knox (1937), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. Other key works include The Heresy of Democracy (1954), Some Memories (his autobiography, 1958), and historical/political books like The Privy Council Under the Tudors. His literary achievements include the prestigious James Tait Black Prize and earlier the Stanhope essay prize at Oxford.