Alexander Gray Ryrie[1] FBA (born 20 August 1971) is a British historian of Protestant Christianity, specializing in the history of England and Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
[5] After teaching for a year at a school in rural Zimbabwe,[6][7] Ryrie read history as an undergraduate at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA 1993, MA 1997),[1] completed a master's in Reformation studies at the University of St Andrews, and in 2000 took a DPhil in theology at St Cross College, Oxford.
[3][8] His doctoral work, examining how early English evangelical reformers operated within the political atmosphere of Henry VIII's reign, was published as The Gospel and Henry VIII.
[3] Ryrie lives in the Pennines with his wife Victoria and their two children, Ben and Adam.
[6] He has been a reader in the Church of England since 1997, and is licensed to the parish of Shotley St John in the diocese of Newcastle.