Nicholas Ridley

Ridley, Nicholas (c.1500–55), English Protestant martyr. Under Thomas Cranmer's patronage he became a chaplain to Henry VIII and bishop of Rochester (1547) and London (1550). He helped compile the Book of Common Prayer. On the accession of the Roman Catholic Mary I (1553) he was imprisoned and burned at Oxford, with Hugh Latimer, for heresy.

See also: Book of Common Prayer; Protestantism.