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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.
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 .
It was created in 1973 by a group of young libertarian Conservatives, with David Alexander as first chairman and Nicholas Ridley as first president, in order to promote free-market economic policies. This followed a conference held in January 1970 by Edward Heath and his shadow cabinet at the Selsdon Park Hotel in Selsdon , with the purpose of ...
The Ridley Plan (also known as the Ridley Report) was a 1977 report on the nationalised industries in the United Kingdom produced in the aftermath of Edward Heath government's being brought down by the 1973–74 coal strike. The Ridley Plan was drawn up by the right-wing Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley, a founding member of the Selsdon Group.
Nicholas Ridley: 30 September 1981 John Moore: 18 October 1983 Norman Lamont: 21 May 1986 Peter Lilley: 24 July 1989 Francis Maude: 14 July 1990 Lords of the Treasury: John MacGregor: 7 May 1979 – 5 January 1981 Peter Morrison: 7 May 1979 – 5 January 1981 Lord James Douglas-Hamilton: 7 May 1979 – 1 October 1981 Carol Mather: 7 May 1979 ...
Nicholas Heath (c. 1501 –1578) was the last Roman Catholic archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor. He previously served as bishop of Worcester. Life.
He resigned, partly because Heath had kept him waiting after a long journey without offering him so much as a sandwich but also because (as he apparently told Heath) he was unhappy with Heath's economic U-turn, which he thought compromised the principles upon which the party had been elected.
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.