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Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500 – 16 October 1555) was an English Bishop of London (the only bishop called "Bishop of London and Westminster" [1]). Ridley was one of the Oxford Martyrs burned at the stake during the Marian Persecutions , for his teachings and his support of Lady Jane Grey .
Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, PC (17 February 1929 – 4 March 1993), was a British Conservative Party politician and government minister.. As President of the Selsdon Group, a free-market lobby within the Conservative Party, he was closely aligned with Margaret Thatcher, and became one of her Ministers of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1979.
Latimer and Ridley were burnt on 16 October 1555 for denying the Roman Catholic dogma of Transubstantiation. Cranmer was burnt five months later on 21 March 1556. [2] A small area paved with granite setts forming a cross in the centre of the road outside the front of Balliol College marks the site.
The burning of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley, from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563) Latimer was burned at the stake along with Nicholas Ridley. He is quoted as having said to Ridley: Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out. [11]
Death by burning is an execution, murder, ... Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burned at the stake in 1555. [74] Thomas Cranmer followed the next year (1556).
The monument was built 300 years after the events of the English Reformation and commemorates the Bishop of Worcester, Hugh Latimer, and Bishop of London, Nicholas Ridley, who were burned nearby on 16 October 1555 after having been convicted for heresy because of their Protestant beliefs after a quick trial.
The book, called “Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom,” centers around the murder trial of Alvin Ridley.
Sir Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley [1] [3] (10 July 1906 – 25 May 2001) was an English ophthalmologist who invented the intraocular lens and pioneered intraocular lens surgery for cataract patients. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]