• Oxford Martyr. Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500 – 16 October 1555) was an English Bishop of London (the only bishop called "Bishop of London and Westminster"[1]).
  • Nicholas Ridley was a Protestant martyr, one of the finest academic minds in the early English Reformation.
  • The Life And Martyrdom Of Nicholas Ridley. January 30, 2024 /. The Sower 1881: This eminent divine, scholar, and martyr of the English Reformation was born...
  • Execution of Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, Book of Martyrs (1563). Ridley and Latimer were sentenced to be burnt at the stake for heresy on 16th...
  • “From Latimer’s Fellow-Martyr to the ‘English Calvin’: Nicholas Ridley’s Reputation and the Circulation of A Brief Declaration of the Lordes Supper, 1555-1570.”
  • Nicholas Ridley was born as the second son of Christopher Ridley, a member of a prominent family in Northumberland, in the early 16th century.
  • by. Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555; Christmas, Henry, 1811-1868. Publication date. 1843.
  • Nicholas Ridley declined the offer saying, “I intend (God willing) to go to bed, and sleep as quietly tonight, as ever I did.”
  • Refusing to recant, he was condemned as a heretic to be burned at the stake with Nicholas Ridley at Oxford on October 16, 1555.
  • Detail view (click for the full image) of a woodcut illustration of Latimer’s and Ridley’s martyrdom in John Foxe’s 1563 Book of Martyrs.