Gerard Eyre Wriothesley Noel (20 November 1926 – 27 July 2016) was an English author, editor and aristocrat.

[3] He read Modern History at Exeter College, Oxford, matriculating in 1944.

[1][2] 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.

A Roman Catholic, he enjoyed a visit with Pope Pius XII at the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo in 1947.