Gerard Noel (editor)
{{Short description|English author, editor and aristocrat}}
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Georgetown Preparatory School
| alma mater = Exeter College, Oxford
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| spouse = Adele Were
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Alice Mary Eyre
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Gerard Eyre Wriothesley Noel (20 November 1926 – 27 July 2016) was an English author, editor and aristocrat. He was the editor-in-chief of The Catholic Herald from 1982 to 1984 and wrote 20 books.
Early life
The Honourable Gerard Noel was born on 20 November 1926.{{cite news|title=Gerard Noel, Catholic Herald editor – obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/07/27/gerard-noel-catholic-herald-editor--obituary/|access-date=October 5, 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=July 27, 2016}} His father was Arthur Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough and his mother, Alice Mary (née Eyre), Countess of Gainsborough.{{cite news|title=Former Catholic Herald editor Gerard Noel dies aged 89|url=https://catholicherald.co.uk/former-catholic-herald-editor-gerard-noel-dies-aged-89/|access-date=2023-09-20|work=The Catholic Herald|date=July 27, 2016}} His older brother Anthony succeeded to the earldom in 1927.
Noel was educated at the Worth School in West Sussex and Georgetown Preparatory School at Washington DC.{{cite web|title=43rd Annual Conference on World Affairs April 8-14, 1990 University of Colorado at Boulder|url=http://www.colorado.edu/cwa/archives/prosopographies/cwa1990.pdf|publisher=colorado.edu/|access-date=5 October 2016}} He read Modern History at Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating in 1944. While he was at Oxford, he ran for the presidency of the Oxford Union but lost to Tony Benn.
Career
Noel started his career as a lawyer in 1952. In the 1959 General Election he was the Liberal candidate for Argyll.
Noel served as the editor of The Catholic Herald from 1971 to 1976. He then served as its editor-in-chief from 1982 to 1984. Additionally, he was a contributing writer to Church Times, The Baptist Times and The Jewish Chronicle.
Noel was the author of 20 books. He authored biographies of politicians like Harold Wilson and Barry Goldwater as well as member of the British royal family like Princess Alice of the United Kingdom and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. He translated The Way to Unity After the Council by Cardinal-Deacon Augustin Bea from Italian into English. He was a Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Personal life and death
Noel married Adele Julie Patricia Were in 1958. They had two sons and a daughter; Philip Arthur Nicholas Noel (born 1959)[https://society.ampleforthcollege.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/January%202017.pdf www.ampleforthcollege.org.uk] and Robert John Baptist Noel (born 1962), Clarenceux King of Arms.
A Roman Catholic, he enjoyed a visit with Pope Pius XII at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo in 1947. He was a member of White's, Brooks's, the Beefsteak, Garrick and Athenaeum Clubs.
Works
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=The Montini Story: A Portrait of Paul VI|date=1963|publisher=Herder Publications|location=London|oclc=19584980}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=Goldwater: A Pictorial Sketch|date=1964|publisher=Campion Press|location=London|oclc=10861060}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=Harold Wilson and the "New Britain"|url=https://archive.org/details/haroldwilsonnewb0000noel|url-access=registration|date=1964|publisher=Gollancz|location=London|isbn=9787220016738|oclc=4469320}}
- {{cite book|last1=Bea|first1=Augustin|translator1-last=Noel|translator1-first=Gerard|title=The Way to Unity After the Council|date=1967|publisher=Dublin G. Chapman|location=London|oclc=956846}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=The Holy See and the War in Europe: March 1939 - August 1940|date=1968|publisher=Herder Publications|location=London|oclc=500253498}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=Princess Alice: Queen Victoria's Forgotten Daughter|date=1974|publisher=Constable|location=London|isbn=9780094598409|oclc=1231188}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=The Great Lock-out of 1926|date=1976|publisher=Constable|location=London|isbn=9780094611603|oclc=2463936}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=The Anatomy of the Catholic Church: Roman Catholicism in an Age of Revolution|date=1980|publisher=Doubleday|location=Garden City, New York|isbn=9780385143110|oclc=5799760|url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofcathol00noel}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=Cardinal Basil Hume|date=1984|publisher=Hamilton|location=London|isbn=9780241112045|oclc=12482246}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=Ena, Spain's English Queen|date=1984|publisher=Constable|location=London|isbn=9780094640702|oclc=12749903}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=A Portrait of the Inner Temple|date=2002|publisher=Michael Russell|location=Norwich|isbn=9780859552776|oclc=59332523}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=Sir Gerard Noel MP and the Noels of Chipping Campden and Exton|date=2004|publisher=Campden and District Historical and Archaeological Society|location=Chipping Campden|isbn=9780951143490|oclc=61263052}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=Miles: A Portrait of the 17th Duke of Norfolk|date=2004|publisher=Michael Russell|location=Norwich|isbn=9780859552899|oclc=57744816}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=The Renaissance Popes: Statesmen, Warriors, and the Great Borgia Myth|date=2006|publisher=Carrol & Graf Publishers|location=New York|isbn=9780786718412|oclc=76163089|url=https://archive.org/details/renaissancepopes00noel}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=New Light On Lourdes|date=2008|publisher=The Catholic Herald|location=London}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=Pius XII: The Hound of Hitler|date=2009|publisher=Continuum|location=New York|isbn=9781441180803|oclc=686773735}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=The Journey of the English-Speaking Union|date=2011|publisher=Michael Russell|location=Norwich|isbn=9780859553209|oclc=749865753}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=The Journey of the Popes: A Papal Curiosity Shop: Peaks and Troughs in Papal History|date=2011|publisher=The Catholic Herald|location=London|oclc=812632764}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=100 Notable Popes: The Most Remarkable Papal Saints, Sinners, Martyrs, Heretics, Warriors and Rulers from St Peter to the Present|date=2011|publisher=Gibson Square|location=London|isbn=9781908096135|oclc=751739651}}
- {{cite book|last1=Noel|first1=Gerard|title=The Heroism of Queen Victoria: And How the Monarchy Was Saved by Princess Alice|date=2012|publisher=Baptist Publications |isbn=9780957379800}}
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